As the business lead singer of the Doorways, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic eyesight and voracious hunger for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the soul and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, thousands more fans from a new generation possess embraced his legacy, as layers of myth have got collected to enshroud the life, career, and accurate character of the person who was Wayne Douglas Morrison.In Jim Morrison, critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis, writer of Hammer about Jim Morrison from the Gods, unmasks Morrison’s built personas from the Lizard King and Mr. Mojo Risin’ to reveal a man of fierce cleverness whose own destructive tendencies both fueled his innovative ambitions and brought about his downfall. Collected from a large number of original interviews and investigations of Morrison’s personal publications, Davis has put together a vivid portrait of a misinterpreted genius, tracing the arc of Morrison’s lifestyle from his stressed youth to his international stardom, when his medication and alcohol binges, tumultuous intimate affairs, and fractious personal associations reached a frenzied peak. For the first time, Davis can reconstruct Morrison’s last times in Paris to resolve one of the biggest mysteries in music history inside a shocking final section.

Convincing and harrowing, close and revelatory, Jim Morrison is the definitive biography from the rock and roll idol in snakeskin and leather who defined the 1960s.