DAN FOX
It's likely that Dan Fox has written and sold more popular music books than any other author in recent times. His Reader's Digest songbooks (17 in all) have sold more than 10 million copies. As well as songbooks for Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young; Peter Paul and Mary; and dozens of other stars of rock, folk, and country. Dan has also written many instruction books for guitar and mandolin, as well as "Write It Right," a guide for music arrangers and copyists, "The Rhythm Bible," with more than 1000 exercises for rock and jazz musicians; and many more. He has published arrangements and original compositions ranging from simple harmonica solos to complete works for concert bands. In the classical field, clarinetist Arthur Miller has recorded Dan's "Suite for Clarinet and Piano." Dan has also arranged books of solos by world-class artists such as Richard Stoltzman and Sir James Galway. Dan's publishers include Mel Bay, Warner Bros. Music (where he was once editor-in-chief), Hal Leonard, Carl Fischer (where he was interim editor), Theodore Presser, and Alfred Publishing Co. He has also published "In and Out the Window" and "A Treasury of Children's Songs," highly successful children's songbooks for New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dan holds bachelor's and master's degrees in composition from the Manhattan School of Music where he was a scholarship student. He is married to artist June Fox. They have three children and seven grandchildren and divide their time between the west coast of Florida and the mountains of western North Carolina.