Terry Gans

Terry Gans has worked as a journalist, grocer, advertising executive, songwriter, corporate controller, and an elected official and mayor of Longboat Key, Florida. Among other things. He began listening to and learning about Bob Dlan in 1962. Since the 1980s he has contributed to Dylan-centric publications such as the Telegraph, Look Back, the Bridge, and ISIS Magazine. His 1970 master's thesis at Miami University (the real one in Ohio) was published in 1983 as What's Real and What Is Not. In 2020, his second book, Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan's Voyage to Infidels, was the first published book to make use of the Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa.