Victor Bockris

Victor Bockris (born 1949) is an English-born, U.S.-based author, primarily of biographies of artists, writers, and musicians.

He has written about Lou Reed (and The Velvet Underground), Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Blondie, Patti Smith, and Muhammad Ali.

[2] Bockris was born in Sussex, England in 1949; his family moved to Pennsylvania when he was four years old.

[citation needed] He moved to New York City in 1973 to work with Andrew Wiley as a writing team called Bockris-Wiley.

[citation needed] Warhol wrote in his book Exposures [Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap, A Filmways Company publishers, New York 1979], "Victor Bockris is a brilliant young writer who only writes about three people: William Burroughs, Muhammad Ali and me.