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”’Gavin Edwards”’ (born 1968) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. He has written 14 books, including ”The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing,” and ”Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood”. He co-wrote ”MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios”, a ”New York Times” bestseller published in 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-10-20 |title=How Superheroes Took Over the Multiplex |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/books/review/mcu-marvel-movies-history.html |access-date=2023-10-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
”’Gavin Edwards”’ (born 1968) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. He has written 14 books, including ”The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing,” and ”Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood”. He co-wrote ”MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios”, a ”New York Times” bestseller published in 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-10-20 |title=How Superheroes Took Over the Multiplex |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/books/review/mcu-marvel-movies-history.html |access-date=2023-10-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 20:53, 19 October 2025
American journalist and non-fiction writer
Gavin Edwards (born 1968) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. He has written 14 books, including The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing, and Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood. He co-wrote MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, a New York Times bestseller published in 2023.[1]
Edwards was born in New York to Scilla and James Edwards. He graduated from Yale University in 1990 with a BA in English.[2]
Focused primarily on music, Edwards began working as a contributing editor and associate editor at Details in 1991. He later wrote for Wired, the New York Times and Rolling Stone, where, as a contributing editor, he wrote 12 cover stories.[3][4]
In 1995, Touchstone Books published the first of Edwards’ five books on misheard lyrics, Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.[5][6]
Edwards’ 2016 book, The Tao of Bill Murray, consisted of a brief biography of Bill Murray, a 106-page filmography of 59 films, and a breakdown of the “10 Principles of Bill,” a “kind of existentialist/Zen mashup that preaches a heightened awareness of the present.”[7][8]
Edwards and his wife, curator Jennifer Sudul Edwards, live in Charlotte, North Carolina with their son and daughter.[2][9]
- MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, with Joanna Robinson and Dave Gonzales; Liverlight, October 2023 ISBNÂ 978-1-63149-751-3
- Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood; Hachette; October 2021; ISBNÂ 0306924323
- Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever; Dey St.; October 2019; ISBNÂ 978-0062950741
- The World According to Tom Hanks: The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America’s Most Decent Guy; Grand Central Publishing; October 2018; ISBNÂ 978-1538712207
- The Beautiful Book of Exquisite Corpses: A Creative Game of Limitless Possibilities; Penguin Books, August 2018 ISBNÂ 978-0143132486
- The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing; Random House; September 2016. ISBNÂ 9780812998702
- Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums Drums Drums (by Travis Barker with Gavin Edwards); HarperCollins; October 2015
- Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind; It Books; October 2013
- VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave (with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn); Atria Books; May 2013
- Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton’s Little John?: Music’s Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed; Three Rivers Press; August 2006
- Deck the Halls with Buddy Holly: And Other Misheard Christmas Lyrics; HarperPerennial; October 1998
- When a Man Loves a Walnut: And Even More Misheard Lyrics; Fireside; November 1997
- He’s Got the Whole World in his Pants: And More Misheard Lyrics; Fireside; November 1996
- ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy: And Other Misheard Lyrics; Fireside; April 1995
- ^ “How Superheroes Took Over the Multiplex”. The New York Times. 2023-10-20. ISSNÂ 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
- ^ a b “WEDDINGS; Jennifer Sudul, Gavin Edwards”. New York Times. May 26, 2002. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Edwards, Gavin. “Archives”. Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ Martin, Rachel (October 27, 2013). “Author Interviews: Gavin Edwards”. National Public Radio. NPR. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ Picks and Pans staff (May 22, 1995). “Picks and Pans Review: ‘scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy and Other Misheard Lyrics”. People Magazine. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ Sternbergh, Adam (July 20, 2012). “Canceled Berets, Cross-Eyed Bears and Other Enduring Mondegreens”. New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ Teetor, Paul (August 29, 2016). “10 Ways to Live Life Like Bill Murray”. Los Angeles Weekly. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ “The Tao of Bill Murray”. Kirkus Reviews. July 19, 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ Washburn, Mark (May 24, 2015). “Curator as Dynamo”. Charlotte Observer. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
