Sam Barry is the publisher, editor, and a contributor to Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All (Coliloquy; June, 2013), by Dave Barry, Sam Barry, Amy Tan, Scott Turow, Roy Blount Jr., Greg Iles, Stephen King, James McBride, Mitch Albom, Ridley Pearson, Matt Groening, Ted Habte-Gabr, and rock legend Roger McGuinn.
He is the author of How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons and coauthored Write That Book Already! The Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now with his late wife, the author and founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders, Kathi Kamen Goldmark. In 2014 Sam was instrumental in getting Kathi's novel "Her Wild Oats," posthumously published by Untreed Reads Publishing.
Sam is writing a book with musician and folk music matriarch Ellen Verdries (mother of Ben Harper and owner of the Folk Music Center in Claremont) that will be published in 2020.
Although he has played harmonica, piano, and sung with the world’s most famous mediocre rock band for many years, Sam really is a great musician. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the proud father of Daniel and Laura and stepfather of Tony Goldmark. You can also find Sam on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @sambarry.