The Authorized Biography of the Foremost Blues Singer and Guitarist of Our Time
Published by Doubleday 1980, Paperback Da Capo 1982, Hannibal Verlag (German) 1995, P-Vine (Japanese) 2015
Chosen as "Music Book of the Year" by critic and historian Leonard Feather in his L.A. Times column when it first appeared, this book served as the definitive B.B. King biography, even after it went out of print. Finally, in 2021 a new biography, built on the foundation of the Authorized Biography, appeared, written by Daniel de Visé: King of the Blues. de Visé has written about the author "Nobody knows the B.B. King story better than Charles Sawyer."
