Featuring a new and intimate chapter reflecting on Leonard's last days, this #1 international bestseller still holds its place as the leading biography of Leonard Cohen.
An icon as a writer and musical artist, Leonard Cohen has held fascination and allure for audiences worldwide for decades. He has been one of the most important and influential songwriters of our time, a man of spirituality, emotion, grace, and intelligence, whose work explores the definitive issues of human life--sex, religion, power, meaning, love.
I'm Your Man, the internationally acclaimed and definitive biography of this enigmatic, private, and unassuming man, delves into the many facets and layers of Cohen's life. Award-winning writer Sylvie Simmons draws on Cohen's private archives and a wealth of interviews with his closest associates, his lovers and other muses past and present, with well-known artists whose work he has inspired, and with Cohen himself. Providing depth and perspective not seen before in previous works on Cohen, I'm Your Man balances the creative and personal sides of this fascinating and charismatic figure, whose poetry, novels, and songs have had a profound impact on multiple generations.

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SYLVIE SIMMONS is one of the best-known names in rock journalism. She has written for Q, Rolling Stone, Sounds, Kerrang!, Tracks, Blender, and Creem, among others. She writes for MOJO, in which she has a monthly American column and has had cover stories about Neil Young, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys , AC/DC, and Johnny Cash. She also writes for British newspapers including Times, the Sunday Sport, and TheGuardian. In the US, she writes for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her website is www.sylviesimmons.com. The author lives in San Francisco.

#1 National Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller
An NPR Best Biography of the Year
A Guardian Best Music Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

“This is the bio Cohen has long deserved, and it makes every prior Cohen book practically unnecessary.”
—Rolling Stone

“The most discerning, intimate, and definitive biography ever written about Canada’s pre-eminent singer, songwriter, poet, and monk. The book is a saga of sex, drugs, and meditation that explores Cohen’s epic struggle to preserve his art from the pressures of showbiz. Although Cohen’s life has been well documented, Simmons unearths a trove of buried or untold stories.”
—Maclean’s

"I'm Your Man is the major, soul-searching biography that Leonard Cohen deserves."
—Janet Maslin, New York Times

“The undisputed Man of the New Millennium gets the biography he deserves with I’m Your Man. . . . This epic book on an epic life hasbeen praised everywhere. . .”
—The Montreal Gazette

"The most comprehensive Cohen biography to date. . . . I'm Your Man will be the go-to text for the next few years as it has all the key stuff—about the two Suzannes, life on the Greek island of Hydra, hanging with Irving Layton, freaking with Phil Spector during the 1977 recording of Death of a Ladies' Man, monking about with Sasaki Roshi on Mount Baldy, romancing Rebecca de Mornay, the triumph of Hallelujah."
—Globe and Mail

“Sylvie Simmons’ I’m Your Man is the very best sort of biography: one which deepens our understanding of the subject . . . while never losing sight of those elements that drew us to him in the first place.”
—Edmonton Journal

"Impresses with its thoroughness. . . . Simmons' assiduous research easily earns her work the 'definitive' label."
—Toronto Star

“Vibrant and enthusiastic. . . . Carefully weaving the threads of all of [Cohen’s] songs and albums through the patterns of his life, Simmons craftily explores the themes that regularly mark Cohen’s work.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Compelling. . . . A must for anyone interested in one of the most influential songwriters of our time.”
—Booklist (starred review)

“Simmons offers an abundance of revealing stories. . . . Cohen emerges in his full complexity, brimming with both seemingly boundless brilliance and abundant human imperfection.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A startlingly effective biography—Simmons seems to understandher subject almost instinctively, and she shares his somber outlook tempered with a wry but playful sense of humor.” —NPR

“[Simmons] has written something more than a disposable rock biography. This book is assiduously researched and resounds with voices: Cohen’s own, but also those of his friends, acquaintances, and former lovers.”
—Quill & Quire

“We have here more than a simple biography. . . . This book will stay with you. It will change the way you hear Leonard Cohen.” —Paste Magazine

“The life of Leonard Cohen offers that rare and fascinating thing for a music biographer. . . . Sylvie Simmons handles the old charmer with aplomb, painting a magnificently detailed and affectionate portrait ofthe artist without romanticising him.”
—The Telegraph