Undercover: Bob Dylan's collectable lyrics lost and found

By Susan Wyndham
Updated November 16 2016 - 11:08am, first published November 4 2016 - 9:00pm
The young Bob Dylan performing on TV. Photo: Val Wilmer
The young Bob Dylan performing on TV. Photo: Val Wilmer

In a ruthless clear-out of books a few years ago, I ditched my 1973 copy of Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan, which my mother had given me as a teenager. Under pressure I reasoned that I preferred listening to Dylan to reading him. Still it took me until 2015 to see him perform live in Sydney, among devotees who had been to dozens of concerts. So I was pleased but not ecstatic about his Nobel Prize in Literature last month.

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