John Byrne Cooke
Encyclopedia
John Byrne Cooke is an American author, musician, and photographer. He is the son of Alistair Cooke
, and the great-grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson
.
In the 1960s, he played with the bluegrass
band, the Charles River Valley Boys
, and was Janis Joplin
's road manager from 1967 until her death.
He has written several Western fiction
novels, and book reviews for the New York Times, Washington Post, Book World
, and the Los Angeles Times
.
Cooke has lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
since 1982.
Alistair Cooke
Alfred Alistair Cooke KBE was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992...
, and the great-grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...
.
In the 1960s, he played with the bluegrass
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
band, the Charles River Valley Boys
Charles River Valley Boys
The Charles River Valley Boys were an American bluegrass group who toured and recorded in the 1960s and were best known for their 1966 album, Beatle Country, presenting bluegrass versions of songs by The Beatles.-History:...
, and was Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
's road manager from 1967 until her death.
He has written several Western fiction
Western fiction
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L'Amour from the mid 20th century...
novels, and book reviews for the New York Times, Washington Post, Book World
Book World
Book World or Bookworld may refer to:* "Book World", a defunct Chicago Tribune entertainment section* "Book World", a Washington Post entertainment section established in 1972* B.C...
, and the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
.
Cooke has lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
since 1982.