Tales from the Bedroom Floor

London: Bantam Press, 1988 Why is this book on the bedroom floor?: I ordered it from a bookseller on eBay, having never come across it in any library or second-hand. It’s like it was deleted from history, and be that because of its size or notoriety, the only way I was going to be able to judge it for myself was to pay a few quid. About the Author: Albert Goldman was an academic and biographer whose writings on American pop culture appeared in a number of leading publications. A widely-praised biography of Lenny Bruce was eventually followed by a notorious biography of Elvis Presley , in which critics saw reflected Goldman’s apparent dislike of his subject. At the time of his death in 1994, Goldman was working on a biography of late Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, which was unpublished. He taught at numerous universities in New York during his life, finishing his life as an associate professor at Columbia University. Plot: Without a shadow of a doubt, the most controversial biograp...