Howard Sounes

Born in London in 1965, Howard Sounes spent the early part of his career as a newspaper journalist. In 1994, while working for the Sunday Mirror , he broke major stories in the West murder case, then covered the case up to and including Rosemary West's trial. This book, Fred & Rose , was first published in 1995, following Mrs West's conviction. A bestseller, it has remained in print ever since. Following the success of Fred & Rose , Howard Sounes left newspaper journalism to write books full...See more

Born in London in 1965, Howard Sounes spent the early part of his career as a newspaper journalist. In 1994, while working for the Sunday Mirror , he broke major stories in the West murder case, then covered the case up to and including Rosemary West's trial. This book, Fred & Rose , was first published in 1995, following Mrs West's conviction. A bestseller, it has remained in print ever since. Following the success of Fred & Rose , Howard Sounes left newspaper journalism to write books full-time, and is now published in twenty-two languages around the world. He is the author of biographies of Bob Dylan ( Down the Highway ), Lou Reed ( Notes from the Velvet Underground ) and the American writer Charles Bukowski ( Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life ). He has written one other true crime book, Heist: The True Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery . See less