Sam Barry is the author of How to Play the Harmonica and Other Life Lessons and co-authored Write That Book Already! The Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now with his late wife, Kathi Kamen Goldmark. He is editor of and a contributor to Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All, by Mitch Albom, Dave Barry, Sam Barry, Roy Blount Jr., Matt Groening, Ted Habte-Gabr, Greg Iles, Stephen King, James McBride, Roger McGuinn, Ridley Pearson, Amy Tan & Scott Turow. Although he has played harmonica, piano, and sung with the world’s most famous mediocre rock band for many years, Sam really is a musician. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.