Keiron Pim is aged 38, married with three young daughters and lives in Norwich, where he was for a decade the literary editor of the Eastern Daily Press newspaper before leaving to concentrate on writing books. He is the author of The Bumper Book of Dinosaurs (Square Peg) and he edited and introduced Into the Light- the Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Meir of Norwich, the first translated edition of England's only major medieval Hebrew poet.
Blending pop culture, social history and interviews with raddled survivors, Pim reconstructs every scene in Litvinoff's twisted history... Jumpin' Jack Flash provides the missing piece of Swinging London's social jigsaw. -- Dominic Green * Literary Review * Blending pop culture, social history and interviews with raddled survivors, Pim reconstructs every scene in Litvinoff's twisted history... Jumpin' Jack Flash provides the missing piece of Swinging London's social jigsaw. -- Dominic Green * Literary Review * This surely has the most startling beginning of any biography to be published this year... Vivid, engrossing... Pim gives an all too graphic picture of the seedy 1950s... He is compassionate and humane at every moment. His prose is always careful and stylish. -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Guardian * The rock'n'roll legend of David Litvinoff is given its definitive account. A considerable work of detection and human sympathy unpicking old myths and making them new. -- Iain Sinclair You'll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won't be able to stop. * Guardian, Book of the Year *