Paul griffin author biography examples
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In Conversation with Paul Griffin, Author & Gentleman Racer
Welcome to our series of HCVA member interviews where we find out more about them and their businesses.
What got you into historic racing?
I have always been enthusiastic about older cars and motor racing. My career and family had both rightly taken priority for a long time, but around the year 2000 we had some money to buy a historic car and to begin racing.
The era which has always taken my interest more than any is the period immediately after the Second World War into the early 1960’s. This period was for me the most compelling. Increasingly over time my car interests have moved backwards into earlier periods.
My marque interests are broad and I am interested in everything, although our budget means that our cars tend to be British – the cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati and Ferrari from those years are just so expensive. There are, of course, replicas but for me the originality and authenticity of the cars t
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Paul Griffin
Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!
Paul began writing his first novel as he finished college, in 1988. That novel and many others went unpublished. Meanwhile, he worked on the truck docks and in construction, as a dog trainer and a driver, teacher, tutor, EMT, butler, bartender, waiter, cook and dishwasher (alongside Vin Diesel). The hardest and best work was the teaching. Paul started working with at-risk, incarcerated and special needs teens in 1989, with a concentration in conflict resolution workshops aimed at stemming the spread of violence, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS among young adults. These days his workshops focus on helping young men and women tell their life stories as they reach out to counselors, judges, admissions officers and potential employers. Twenty years to the day after Paul graduated Dartmouth, Penguin/Dial released his “first” (twenty-fourth) novel Ten Mile River and then The Orange
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Paul Griffin (musician)
American session musician and pianist (1937–2000)
Paul Griffin (August 6, 1937 – June 14, 2000) was an American pianist and session musician who recorded with hundreds of musicians from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Career
[edit]Born in Harlem, New York, he began as the touring pianist in the backing band for King Curtis and eventually worked with Bob Dylan, Steely Dan, Don McLean, the Isley Brothers, Van Morrison, the Shirelles, and Dionne Warwick. He may be best known for his colourful and distinctive playing on the Bob Dylan albums Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and also on Steely Dan's Aja. He is extensively featured playing a virtuoso performance of gospel piano on Don McLean's single, "American Pie", and Paul Simon's "Tenderness".[1] He fryst vatten credited as co-author of the song "The Fez" on Steely Dan's The Royal Scam, the only Steely Dan non-cover song with a credited writer other than Dan founders Becker and Fagen