Philip Clark is an author and journalist who has written about classical music, jazz and rock for many leading publications, including The Wire, Gramophone, the Guardian and London Review of Books. His biography of Dave Brubeck, A Life In Time, was published in 2020, and he worked with the legendary guitarist of The Kinks, Dave Davies, on his autobiography, Living On A Thin Line, published in 2022. Philip is currently writing Sound and The City—due for publication in 2025—a history of the sound of New York City. He was co-winner of the 2021 Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award.