Books by Howard Reich

In a meteoric career that made Van Cliburn a cultural hero tantamount to the Beatles, the facts became stranger than the fiction that abounded about his career that 'fizzled a year or two after the Tchaikovsky competition,' or about the near loss of an arm, or about his eleven-year retreat into privacy beginning in the late '70s.

The acclaimed, definitive biography of the first jazz composer, based on newly discovered archival material