The Music of Time

About the Book

The Music of Time is a riviting life story that reads like a fine novel, giving voice to the author's sensibilities, secrets, and fears, without traces of inhibition. All the major and minor characters are here, an astonishing variety of men and women who have influenced the writer's life and work over a period of six decades. We discover precisely how he learned the craft of novel writing, his lifelong passion for music that became a catalyst for his creativity, and how an unexpected insight at Harvard would dramatically change his life. This book is the haunting self-portrait of a truly gifted American artist, still working, whose reputation is secure among the finest writers of his generation.

About the Author

John Minahan is the author of 21 books, including the Doubleday Award-winning novel, A Sudden Silence, the million-copy bestseller, Jeremy, produced as a major motion picture by United Artists, and The Great Diamond Robbery, produced as a two-hour television special on CBS. An alumnus of Cornell, Harvard, and Columbia, he is a former novel-writing instructor on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. Mr. Minahan and his wife, Verity, now live in Palm Springs, California, where he is working on his next book.