Kevin Avery

Kevin Avery was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Avery/e/B0050P2DNC |title=Amazon Author Page|website=Amazon}} Amazon.com

Prior to publishing his first book, Avery was vice-president of Yield Management for Motor Cargo, a Western regional transportation company that was acquired by UPS Freight, the Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) trucking division of UPS.Avery, Kevin: {{cite web|url= https://www.linkedin.com/in/merewordsmedia|title= LinkedIn Profile}}

Avery's first published works were short stories, which were published by periodicals including City Weekly, Gallery, Weber Studies, Utah Holiday, California Quarterly, and Mississippi Review.Avery, Kevin: {{cite web|url= https://www.linkedin.com/in/merewordsmedia|title= LinkedIn Profile}}

In 1992, he began writing nonfiction, mainly rock & roll criticism, for CATALYST Magazine, The Event, Penthouse, and Salt Lake magazine. Interview subjects included NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, musical acts Radiohead, Freedy Johnston, Los Lobos, Tori Amos, Moody Blues, Graham Parker, and Sheryl Crow, cartoonist John Callahan, and late impresario Eugene Jelesnik. Avery's music criticism was greatly influenced by the work of Paul Nelson (critic), whose work he'd begun reading as a teenager.Andelman, Bob: {{cite web|url=http://www.mrmedia.com/2012/01/paul-nelson-rediscovered-clint-eastwood-bob-dylan-and-more-video-interview/|title= Paul Nelson Rediscovered: Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan and more! (Video Interview)|date= 4 January 2012}} Mr. Media, January 4, 2012

Beginning in 2006, upon learning of Nelson's death, Avery spent four years researching and writing Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson, an anthology-biography compiling some of Nelson's best works while also documenting the critic's tragic life. In addition to interviewing Nelson's friends, family, and fellow critics, Avery interviewed some of the artists about whom Nelson wrote, including Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Elliott Murphy, Bruce Hornsby, Suzanne Vega, and Rod Stewart.Avery, Kevin: {{cite web|url=http://kevin-avery.livejournal.com/tag/bruce%20hornsby |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626191657/http://kevin-avery.livejournal.com/tag/bruce%20hornsby |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-26 |title=The Finish Line }} Everything Is an Afterthought (blog), May 16, 2010

From 2010 to 2011, Avery edited Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979 - 1983, compiled from interview tapes with Clint Eastwood found in Paul Nelson's apartment after his death.Andelman, Bob: {{cite web|url=http://www.mrmedia.com/2012/01/paul-nelson-rediscovered-clint-eastwood-bob-dylan-and-more-video-interview/|title= Paul Nelson Rediscovered: Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan and more! (Video Interview)|date= 4 January 2012}} Mr. Media, January 4, 2012 Critic Robert Christgau called the book, which was published eight weeks before Everything Is an Afterthought, "astonishingly thorough."Christgau, Robert: {{cite web|url=http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Rock-Roll/Pioneer-Days/ba-p/6273|title=Pioneer Days}}

In October 2016, he published his third book (his second for Fantagraphics) It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives, editing Paul Nelson's forty hours of interviews with detective writer Ross Macdonald.Fantagraphics Books website: {{cite web|url= http://www.fantagraphics.com/itsallonecase/|title=It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives}}

He founded Mere Words Media Relations, a boutique public relations firm that provides a full array of affordable publicity services.{{cite web|url=http://merewordsmedia.com|title=Mere Words Media Relations website}}

In 2005, Avery moved to New York City to pursue his writing career, and where in 2006, he got married. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Deborah Avery.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Kevin-Avery/e/B0050P2DNC |title=Amazon Author Page|website=Amazon}} Amazon.com

Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson, Fantagraphics Books, 2011. {{ISBN|1606994751}}

Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood, 1979 - 1983, Continuum Books, 2011. {{ISBN|144116586X}}

[http://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive%20B%20Vol.%2011-16.1/Vol.%2011.1/11.1Avery.htm "A Daughter Is a Different Matter"], Weber Studies, Winter 1994

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• {{official website|http://www.kevinavery.com}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150525033022/https://www.fantagraphics.com/paulnelson Fantagraphics author page]
• [http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/conversations-with-clint-9781441165862/ Continuum author page]
• [http://vimeo.com/31839758 Kevin Avery on Kick Out the Jams] with Dave Marsh on The Loft (Sirius XM) (radio interview), November 6, 2011
• [http://www.pulp-serenade.com/2011/11/kevin-avery-at-strand-bookstore-11911.html Gallagher, Cullen, "Kevin Avery at Strand Bookstore (11/9/11)," Pulp Serenade]

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