Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.
Bob Dylan is arguably one of the most unique songwriters of our generation and has had many lies with many relationships with women whether fleeting or lasting and maybe a secret marriage or two.
My next guest has written a personal memoir detailing the relationship between his mother and Dylan in the summer of 1972 and he set out to find the truth.
is Bob Dylan, his father.
The op-ed piece he wrote, The Silent Type, on possibly being Bob Dylan's son,
won the BAFTA New Writing Award and led to the expansion of the piece into an autofictional debut novel.
Originally from the Hudson Valley, he's lived in Jerusalem, Berlin and the UK.
He taught writing and literature seminars and participated in the Penn World Voices Festival of International Literature three times.
His debut, Boy from the North Country,
gives more detail on the possibility of being related to Bob Dylan
while reflecting on the relationship between mother and child and the discovery of the truth of his origins.
Sam Sussman, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Great pleasure to be with you.
Sam, we met in New York.
We had a kind of hilarious evening together at a party and it was kind of
as you walk in there's a sort of gasp from people because Whether Dylan is your father or not,
you are his doppelganger.
I live out the other people to observe.
But this is something that has dogged you your whole life.
I mean, when you were a kid at school, people were going, are you related to Bob Dylan?