Jack Gohn

Jack L.B. Gohn spent his earliest life in London and Vienna, grew up mainly in Ann Arbor, and has spent most of his adult life in Baltimore. His published writings include scholarly books and papers, book criticism, a newspaper column on law and policy, theater criticism, blogs and most recently plays. Other writings have appeared in such diverse places as the website of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the National Catholic Reporter, and the Wall Street Journal. He belongs to the American Theatre Critics Association and the Dramatists Guild.

In one way or another, he has been indirectly writing memoirs all his life. His recently-published What I Was Listening to When ...: A Memoir Set To Music is a memoir without indirection -- or apologies -- based on the principle that "the music evokes the moments, and the moments evoke the music," which recalls seventy momentous years, and the songs that accompanied them.