Susan CompoSusan Compo grew up in Orange County, California, where she published the pioneering fanzine " ´ " (subtitled "The Fanzine for the Blank Generation"). She is the author of two story collections, Life After Death and Malingering, and thenovel Pretty Things, as well as Warren Oates: A Wild Life and Earthbound: David Bowie and The Man Who Fell To Earth. She recently collaborated with artist Mark Wardel on the book David Bowie and 'Cracked Actor' The Fly in the Milk, and contributed to the monograph Derek Boshier: Reinventor (an essay on the artist's painting David Bowie and Teresa Cornelys). Shepard, her biography of the playwright and actor Sam Shepard, will be published in 2026. Read More Read Less