Robert Rosen (writer)
Robert Rosen | |
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 Robert Rosen, Mexico City, October 9, 2005 | |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, editor |
| Alma mater | City College of New York |
| Notable works | Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (2000) |
| Spouse | Mary Lyn Maiscott |
Robert Rosen is an American writer born in Brooklyn, New York, on July 27, 1952. He is the author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, a controversial account of the ex-Beatle’s last five years based on Rosen’s memory of Lennon’s diaries, which he says he used as “a roadmap to the truth.”
Lennon’s diaries were given to Rosen in 1981 by Frederic Seaman, Lennon’s personal assistant. According to Nowhere Man, Seaman told Rosen that Lennon had given him permission to use the diaries as source material for a biography that Seaman was to write in the event of Lennon’s death. Five days after Lennon’s murder, Seaman recruited Rosen to help him with the project.
The manuscript for Nowhere Man, originally written in 1982, was not published for 18 years. The book became a bestseller in the United States, England, Japan, Mexico, and Colombia.
Rosen attended Erasmus Hall High School and studied writing at the City College of New York with Joseph Heller, James Toback, and Francine du Plessix Gray. Before publishing Nowhere Man he worked as a freelance journalist and men’s magazine editor. His erotica is written under the pen name “Bobby Paradise.”
Rosen's work has appeared in Uncut, Mother Jones, The Soho Weekly News, Swank, La Repubblica, Proceso, Reforma, and El Heraldo [1].