Aloha Elvis
Jerry Hopkins, a twenty-year veteran of Rolling Stone, is the author of three other books about Elvis Presley: Elvis: A Biography (1971) and Elvis: The Final Years (1980), both international bestsellers, long out of print and to be republished in an updated form in 2007; and Elvis in Hawaii (2004).  His research material for those works is part of the Mississippi Valley Collection at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.  Hopkins also wrote biographies of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and Yoko Ono.  A resident of Hawaii from 1976-1993, he now lives in Thailand.