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Nobody sang the blues hotter, lived the 60's wilder, or rocked harder than Janis Joplin. THis is her story. Out of the Texas, Louisiana swamps she wailed the blues like no one, black or white, has ever dared. THe author bases this biography on interviews with scores of personalities, both famous and unknown to reveal facts about Janis Joplin's life and death that have languished in shadow for many years. Here is the tragic, the magic, and, most of all, the real Janis Joplin - the greatest female singer in the history of rock and roll

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A 1954 graduate of Texas Christian University, Ellis Amburn worked as a reporter for Newsweek before going into the book publishing industry where he rose to the position of editor, working for such well-known publishers as Delacorte Press, Coward-McCann, William Morrow. During his career, Amburn was an editor for authors such John le Carre, Belva Plain, Muriel Spark, Joshua Logan and for Jack Kerouac. Amburn served as editorial director for G. P. Putnam's Sons and in addition worked as a ghostwriter for Priscilla Presley, Shelley Winters, Peggy Lee and Zsa Zsa Gabor. In 1990, he produced his first biography on fellow Texan Roy Orbison that led to further such books. He is noted for his exhaustive research, even going so far as to live for several weeks at the home of the parents of Orbison's first wife, Claudette Frady-Orbison. His books have generated controversy at times (such as his biography of Janis Joplin), and he is reviled by many Orbison fans for presenting hearsay as fact. Amburn lived in High Springs, Florida, outside of Gainesville and in Tifton, Georgia. His papers are held at Texas Christian University. Ellis Amburn paased away on Saturday, August 18, 2018 after a long illness. His biographies are: Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin (2005) - Warner Books The Sexiest Man Alive : A Biography of Warren Beatty (2002) -HarperCollins The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor (2000) - HarperCollins Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac (1998) - St. Martin's Press Buddy Holly: A Biography (1995) - St. Martin's Press Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story (1990) - Carol Publishing Group Olivia de Havilland and the Golden Age of Hollywood (2018) - Lyons Press

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