WILL FRIED­WALD writes about music for The Wall Street Jour­nal and was the jazz and cabaret crit­ic for The New York Sun. He is the author of nine books, includ­ing A Bio­graph­i­cal Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers; Star­dust Melodies: The Biog­ra­phy of Twelve of Amer­i­ca’s Most Pop­u­lar Songs; Jazz Singing: Amer­i­ca’s Great Voic­es from Bessie Smith to Bebop; Sina­tra! The Song Is You; and The Good Life (with Tony Ben­nett). He has writ­ten the lin­er notes for near­ly five hun­dred CDs, for which he has received eight Gram­my nom­i­na­tions. He has also writ­ten for Van­i­ty Fair, The Vil­lage Voice, Enter­tain­ment Week­ly, Amer­i­can Her­itage, and The New York Times, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He lives in New York City.