Brian Wilson

Kirk Curnutt is Professor of English at Troy University, Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of a number of works of fiction and scholarly books including, most recently, Key West Hemingway (University Press of Florida, 2009), The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cambridge University Press, 2007), A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Oxford University Press, 2004) and the forthcoming Reading Hemingway's To Have and Have Not: Glossary and Commentary (Kent State University Press, 2011).

• Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Beyond Biography, Beyond Superlatives Chapter One: 'I Hear the Sound of a Gentle Word': Lyrical Themes and Gestures Chapter Two: 'A Companion for Your Lonely Soul: Musical and Sonic Motifs Chapter Three: 'I'm the Pied Piper: The Peculiar Appeal of Brian Wilson Notes Discography Works Cited