A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter.

John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius.

This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. With unparalleled knowledge of Lennon and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lennon's life and using them to reveal the man himself.

亨特•戴維斯，英國作傢、記者和播音員。戴維斯著書超過四十部，創作範圍廣泛，包括小說、兒童故事、旅遊、社會曆史和體育。戴維斯的傳記作品中包括有華茲華斯、哥倫布、斯蒂文森、波特小姐等，他也是披頭士唯一授權的傳記作者——1968年齣版的授權傳記《披頭士》廣受好評。身為記者，他曾在《星期日泰晤士報》、《潘趣》雜誌和《衛報》工作多年。