Nick Drake

by Patrick Humphries (Bloomsbury Publishing/St. Martin’s Press, $24.95, 279 pp.)
by Thomas Christian

First ever word bio of influential ’60s folkie dark child who OD’d on anti-depressants at the tender age of 26 and left three albums behind that inspired REM, Television, and Jackson Browne, among others. Authored by journalist/pop-biographer (Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Richard Thompson) Patrick Humphries.