About the Author

Brian Wilson, best known for his work with the Beach Boys, is one of popular music's most deeply revered figures. The main creative force behind some of the most cherished recordings in rock history and one of the most influential composers of the last century, Wilson became a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2007. A father of seven, he lives with his wife in Santa Monica, California.

Reviews

All of it in Wilson's idiosyncratic voice...what a story!
*Esquire*

Surprisingly revealing and insightful memoir from the Beach Boys mastermind...Nearly every page opens up new windows into the mind of Brian Wilson. 4*
*Mojo*

Wilson and The Beach Boys' story has been told many times before and is one we may think we know, but it has never before been voiced with the clarity, honesty and insight on offer here. Surf's up.
*Loud and Quiet Magazine*

Beach Boy Brian Wilson's unflinching new autobiography ... it's quite a ride.
*Daily Record*

An accurate insight into the way his mind works
*London Evening Standard*

I Am Brian Wilson is a strange kind of surfing through the Beach Boy's interior life. Wilson dwells on the damage his violent dad did to his childhood without revealing the psychological consequence, except in the voice of a book that, though ghosted, sounds like his own. His genius, like all genius, he suggests is accidental. He was hit around the head by a lead pipe as a kid in a playground fight, and lost his hearing in one ear. After that, he always felt he had to tune in to experience as if trying to find a radio frequency. The Beach Boys' otherworldly sound, and the faltering attempts to locate its source in the deceptively simple sentences of this memoir, appear to be results of that distancing.
*The Observer*

An unflinchingly honest account
*Choice Magazine*