Word: hajdu
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...talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives are chronicled in David Hajdu's recently published book, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina...
...Dylan. One other person, Richard Farina, may have realized it too, but he died in a motorcycle accident in 1966, just as he was poised to become Dylan's great rival. In Positively 4th Street (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 328 pages; $25), David Hajdu adds an important chapter to the Dylan legend by recounting the professional and personal loves of these two men and the music that fueled...
...Hajdu, who wrote a well-received biography of Duke Ellington's collaborator Billy Strayhorn, deftly re-creates these era-defining characters and their world. To read this book now, when Dylan's long career seems inevitable, is to wonder whether things would have been different had Farina survived...