Bill Zehme

Writing Your Personal or Company Legacy Book

Pick Bill’s Brain: Do you want a New York Times bestselling author to weigh-in your own book project? Maybe you are writing a legacy book about yourself…or your company’s success and would like to run it by a pro for “notes.” Bill can tell you how to know what’s good…and how to avoid the common pitfalls. Do you want a tome published as a mainstream book, or do you want to use it as a marketing tool to impress new customers? Then, you need to pick Bill Zehme’s brain.

Who Hires Bill: Recognized among the nation’s more unique interpreters of popular culture, he is a longtime writer at large for Esquire, and his impressionistic profiles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Vanity Fair.

Expertise: With enough background from you, Bill Zehme can examine what you’ve written and quickly help you transcend the facts and events – by indentifying the emotional trigger points that will make your book highly compelling (a page-turner).

Experience:Bill Zehme is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’. He has also authored the best sellers, Intimate Strangers: Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of the Very Famous, The Rolling Stone Book of Comedy, Jay Leno’s Leading With My Chin, Regis Philbin’s I’m Only One Man and Who Wants To Be Me?…as well as Hugh Hefner’s, Hef’s Little Black Book. Bill is currently writing the definitive book on TV Icon Johnny Carson titled Carson The Magnificent: An intimate portrait. (Random House)During the six years of research for Lost in the Funhouse (his book about Andy Kaufman), he served as supervising producer of the network television retrospective Taxi: A Celebration and consulting producer of the NBC-TV special A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman.