Gavin Edwards

Gavin Edwards (born 1968) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. He has written fourteen books, including The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing and Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood (2021). He co-wrote MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, a New York Times bestseller published in 2023.

Early life Edwards was born in New York to Scilla and James Edwards. He graduated from Yale University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

Career Focused primarily on music, Edwards began working as a contributing editor and associate editor at Details magazine in 1991. He later wrote for Wired, The New York Times and Rolling Stone, where, as a contributing editor, he wrote twelve cover stories.

In 1995, Touchstone Books published the first of Edwards' five books on misheard lyrics, Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.

Edwards' 2016 book, The Tao of Bill Murray, consisted of a brief biography of Bill Murray, a 106-page filmography of 59 films, and a breakdown of the "10 Principles of Bill", a "kind of existentialist/Zen mashup that preaches a heightened awareness of the present."

Personal life Edwards and his wife, curator Jennifer Sudul Edwards, live in Charlotte, North Carolina, with their son and daughter.