Bob Dylan, 2016 Nobel Prize-winner for literature, has surprising Brooklyn connections
Bob Dylan, who has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, is now officially ranked among the great literary figures of his generation.
Dylan, 75, would be the first to tell you that it was Brooklyn’s own Woody Guthrie who helped determine his musical direction. In fact, a young, impressionable Dylan made a pilgrimage to Coney Island in 1961 to meet his musical hero, and one of Dylan’s earliest songs, “Song to Woody,” paid tribute to the man who inspired him to pursue a career as folk artist. In the tune, Dylan proclaims: