Alanna Nash

Winner of the 2004 Country Music Association Media Achievement Award, and the 2009 Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism, Alanna Nash is the author of six previous books. She has written about music for such publications as Vanity Fair, People, The New York Times, USA Weekend, TV Guide, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, Ladies Home Journal, and Reader's Digest. Esquire magazine named her one of the "Heavy 100 of Country Music."