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name: Mary-Lou Sullivan
about: Mary Lou Sullivan is an award winning journalist, author, public relations professional and former radio show host. Her first authorized biography, Raisin' Cain - The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter (Backbeat Books, May 2010), earned popular and critical acclaim, as well as prestigious awards for the quality of her writing and her research. Her second authorized biography, "Everything's Bigger in Texas - The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman" (Backbeat Books, November 2017) chronicles the life of another Texas icon. Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western singer, turned author, turned politician, Kinky Friedman has dined on monkey brains in the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed wi Mary Lou Sullivan is an award winning journalist, author, public relations professional and former radio show host. Her first authorized biography, Raisin' Cain - The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter (Backbeat Books, May 2010), earned popular and critical acclaim, as well as prestigious awards for the quality of her writing and her research. Her second authorized biography, "Everything's Bigger in Texas - The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman" (Backbeat Books, November 2017) chronicles the life of another Texas icon. Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western singer, turned author, turned politician, Kinky Friedman has dined on monkey brains in the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed with Bob Dylan in the tiny fishing village of Yelapa, Mexico. A satirist who loves pushing the envelope, he's been attacked onstage, received bomb threats, and put on the only show in Austin City Limits' history deemed too offensive to air. From the 1970s music scene in L.A. with Tom Waits and the Band, to political platforms advocating legalized marijuana, to friendships with John Belushi, Joseph Heller, Don Imus, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, and Billy Bob Thornton, Sullivan's biography is the candid account --- based on dozens and years of interviews --- of the larger-than-life Texan who is still writing books and songs, recording albums, and performing for enthusiastic audiences throughout the world. ...more