David Comfort has been a finalist for the Faulkner Award, Nelson Algren Award, and America's Best. He is the author of such titles as The Rock and Roll Book of the Dead: The Fatal Journeys of Rock's Seven Immortals, a study of the tempestuous lives, tormented relationships, and tragic ends of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, and Kurt Cobain.
