David Browne is an American journalist and author.
He is currently a senior writer at Rolling Stone,[1] where he has been a contributor since 2008.
[4] Browne is the author of six books: Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley (HarperCollins, 2001),[5] a dual father/son biography of musicians Jeff Buckley and Tim Buckley; Amped: How Big Air, Big Dollars and a New Generation Took Sports to the Extreme (Bloomsbury, 2004),[6] a history of extreme sports; Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth (Da Capo, 2008);[7] Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970 (Da Capo, 2011);[8] So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead (Da Capo, 2015);[9] and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup (Da Capo, 2019).
[10] The latter title received a starred review in Kirkus and was included in the Summer Reading issue of The New York Times in May 2019.
[11][12] Browne was born and raised in New Jersey and attended New York University, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism, with a minor in music.