Guitar World's Top 15 Books of 2011 | Guitar World

One could probably call 2011 "The Year of Rock and Roll Biopic."

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Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.

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