Ed Ward (writer)

Ed Ward (born 1948) is an American writer and radio commenter, known since 1986 as the "rock-and-roll historian" for NPR's program "Fresh Air" and one of the original founders of Austin's South by Southwest music festival. [Elvis Mitchell, "At SXSW, music is still what matters", "Fort Worth Star-Telegram", March 26 1998. [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ST&s_site=dfw&p_multi=ST&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB042999627AB79&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM] ]

Ward attended Antioch College, and began his music-writing career in 1965. He has been on the staff of "Crawdaddy!" (1967), "Rolling Stone" (1970), and "Creem" (1971-1977) magazines, and of the "Austin American-Statesman" and "Austin Chronicle" (where he has been honored as part of their annual "Restaurant Poll", lending his name to their "Ed Ward Memorial Sandwich" award). [ [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid:216849 "Postmarks"] , "Austin Chronicle", June 18 2004. Accessed 9 March 2007] He was the co-author (with Geoffrey Stokes and Ken Tucker) of "Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll" (1983) and wrote content with Rashod Ollison for the PBS website for the documentary series "". [ [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/getupstandup/about_credits2.html Official PBS website ] Accessed 9 March 2007] He is based in Berlin, Germany, where he has lived since 1993, and in addition to his rock-and-roll history lessons on "Fresh Air" he contributes to the "New York Times", the "Wall Street Journal", and various music magazines.

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* [http://www.berlinbites.com Ed Ward's blog]