William McKeen is the author of Outlaw Journalist, Highway 61, Rock and Roll is Here to Stay and several other books about American music and popular culture. He is professor and chairman of the University of Florida Department of Journalism and was a newspaper reporter and magazine editor before beginning his teaching career.  His next book is a collection of stories about childhood in Florida. He is a father of seven and lives with his wife Nicole, a magazine editor, on a small horse farm near Wacahoota, Florida.