
Anthony DeCurtis
Anthony DeCurtis (Ph.D. '80, English) is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, where his work has appeared for 35 years, and serves as a distinguished lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters and In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work. DeCurtis is also the editor of Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture and Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer. DeCurtis' liner notes for the Eric Clapton box set Crossroads won a Grammy Award in the Best Album Notes category, and he has appeared as a commentator on MTV, VH1, The Today Show, and many other news and entertainment programs. He is a winner of the College of Arts and Sciences' 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award.
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