Elizabeth Thomson has written for newspapers and magazines around the world and her portfolio of interviews includes Joan Baez, Alan Bennett, Jimmy Carter, Leonard Cohen and Vanessa Redgrave. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, she is the co-editor of critical anthologies on John Lennon, Bob Dylan and David Bowie and was responsible for 'the director's cut' of No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton. She has lectured at Liverpool University's Institute of Popular Music and been a Visiting Fellow of the Open University Sixties Research Group. A frequent broadcaster, Thomson is a founding editor of BookBrunch, the daily newsletter and website for the book trade.