Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer philosopher poet delinquent-the brilliant charismatic and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing this definitive biography is the work of two men whose empathy and experience with Jim Morrison uniquely prepared them to recount this modern tragedy: Jerry Hopkins whose famous Presley biography Elvis was inspired by Morrison's suggestion and Danny Sugerman confidant of and aide to the Doors. With an afterword by Michael McClure.