Webinar - A Conversation with Best-Selling Author and Musician Alan Paul

Join us for a special evening featuring two-time New York Times best-selling author and musician, Alan Paul, who will talk about the art of writing about music and share tales from his fascinating and unique career.

Alan Paul's last two books – Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan and One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band  – debuted in the New York Times Non Fiction Hardcover Best Seller's List. His first book, Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues and Becoming a Star in Beijing, is about his experiences raising a family in Beijing and, forming a band with three Chinese musicians and touring China was optioned for film by Ivan Reitman's Montecito Productions.

Texas Flood is the first biography of Vaughan in any format to feature the cooperation of Vaughan's brother Jimmie and his Double Trouble bandmates Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon and Reese Wynans. Both a documentary and a biopic are in the works.

Paul interviewed almost 100 people for One Way Out, including all surviving band members and many friends and associates, including Eric Clapton. He spent 25 years reporting on the band, touring with them and receiving exclusive access. Paul wrote "The Expat Life" column from Beijing for WSJ.com for four years and it earned him The National Society of Newspaper Columnists Columnist of the Year. Award. He also covered the 2008 Olympics for NBC.com, also regularly appearing on TV as a commentator during the Games.

Paul is a longtime senior writer for Slam and Guitar World magazines and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Billboard, Relix, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, People, ESPN.com, Rolling Stone.com, and many other publications and websites. He lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wife Rebecca Blumenstein. They have three children.

6:00pm EST webinar, gratis. Advance registration required. Registrants will receive the link to join the webinar in a confirmation email.