Dylan to Pen Autobiography

NEW YORK (AP) - More than 150 books have been published about Bob Dylan - from bountiful biographies to accounts of recording sessions to interpretations of his music - and more than 100 remain in print today. Two high - profile Dylan books have been published this year alone: Howard Sounes' biography Down the Highway and David Hadju's account of Dylan and Joan Baez's Sixties stint in New York City's Greenwich Village. But save Tarantula, a thirty - five - year - old collection of Dylan - penned poems, the reclusive songwriter has never put his story down on paper. That is, until now. Simon and Schuster has inked a deal with Dylan to pen Chronicles, a multi - volume biography, the first volume of which may see publication next year.

For Dylan, the biography is the latest in a string of high - profile releases over the past year. A song he penned for the soundtrack to last year's Wonder Boys earned him a Golden Globe Award and his first ever Academy Award, both for Best Original Song. And six weeks ago he released "Love and Theft", his forty - third album, which remains in the Top Fifty with sales of 350,000 to date.

Dylan is currently on the road touring behind "Love and Theft".