Bob Dylan

Anthony Scaduto was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 7, 1932. He attended Brooklyn College for two years, but left school because he was already working at The New York Post. He started there as a part-time copy boy right out of high school and was soon made a staff reporter. He left The Post to write the biography Bob Dylan. His other books included Mick Jagger: Everybody's Lucifer, Scapegoat: The Lonesome Death of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and Lucky Luciano: The Man Who Modernized the Mafia written under the pen name Tony Sciacca. He returned to full-time journalism in 1980. He worked on Page Six at The Post and then covered pop culture for New York Newsday and then for Newsday on Long Island. He retired in 2002. He died from complications of diabetes on December 12, 2017 at the age of 85.

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