Tougher Than the Rest: 100 Best Bruce Springsteen Songs
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, June Skinner Sawyers has written extensively about music, travel, history, spirituality, and popular culture. She contributes regularly for the Chicago Tribune, where she used to write a nightlife column, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has taught numerous classes in the humanities at the Newberry Library in Chicago, including a course that studied the music of Bruce Springsteen. She is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Celtic Music, Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader, and the forthcoming About a Lucky Band that Made the Grade: The Beatles Together... and Apart.