Book description
WITH AN AFTERWORD BY YOKO ONO AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
John Lennon wrote the material collected in Skywriting by Word of
Mouth during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean Lennon. After John's
assassination in 1980, his manuscript was stolen from the Lennon's
home. Skywriting was finally published in 1986, and it displays
all of Lennon's extraordinary creativity and inventiveness with
language. It includes Lennon's only piece of autobiography, 'The
Ballad of John and Yoko' as well as short works of fiction, accounts
of falling in love, marriage, the break-up of the Beatles and life in America.
John Lennon, MBE, was born in Liverpool in 1940. He was a singer,
songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one
of the founding members of The Beatles. He was shot by an obsessive fan
and died in December 1980.
