Books By Mikal Gilmore - Author

Mikal Gilmore (born in Portland, Oregon on February 9, 1951) is an American writer and music journalist.

In the 1970s Gilmore began writing music articles and criticism for Rolling Stone magazine. In 1999, his Night Beat: A Shadow History of Rock and Roll was published by Anchor. In July 2009, he released another book, Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and its Discontents. It was published by Free Press.

His brother Gary Gilmore (December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he committed in Utah. After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a new series of death penalty statutes in the 1976 decision Gregg v. Georgia, he became the first person in almost ten years to be executed in the United States.