Tony Fletcher is the author of eleven books, including several bestselling music biographies on The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, R.E.M and more. As a teenager, he started a fanzine at school in London during the late 1970s: a compendium, The Best of Jamming!: Selections & Stories from the Fanzine that Grew Up 1977-86, was published in late 2021. Fletcher moved to New York City in the late 1980s, and to the Hudson Valley in the mid-2000s. Throughout his career, Fletcher has written for a multitude of publications, appeared on and/or produced various TV, radio and podcast shows, and worked in several other areas of music and media.