Gary Golio is the author of several best-selling and award-winning musical picture-book biographies, including JIMI: SOUNDS LIKE A RAINBOW, WHEN BOB MET WOODY, AND SPIRIT SEEKER: JOHN COLTRANE’S MUSICAL JOUNREY. Gary Golio lives in Hudson Valley, New York.

Books by Gary Golio

Smile: How Young Charlie Chaplin Taught the World to Laugh (and Cry)

written by Gary Golio with illustrations by Ed Young - Biography, Children's 8-12, Children's Nonfiction, Humor, Performing Arts

Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song

by Gary Golio and Charlotte Riley-Webb - African American Interest, Children's Nonfiction, Music

Bird & Diz

Written by Gary Golio with illustrations by Ed Young - Fiction, Music