Bob Dylan

Songwriting Nobel laureate

Facts

• Born: 1941
• Country: United States
• Field: Music
• Era: Television Age

Overview

The Freewheelin Bob Dylan 1963 and Highway 61 Revisited 1965 transformed popular songwriting. Like a Rolling Stone topped the Rolling Stone 500 greatest songs list. He won ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Things Have Changed 2000, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, the first songwriter so honored. The Never Ending Tour began in 1988.