Jerry Hopkins has published more than 1,000 magazine articles and thirty-three books, including several international bestsellers.

His biographers of rock singer Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, was a No. 1 bestseller (New York Times) in 1980 and went back to No. 2 in 1991 when it was a primary source for Oliver Stone’s film The Doors. Other biographical subjects included Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and Yoko Ono, making him the first biographers of both Presley and Morrison and earning him the title “dean of the pop biographer.” The Morrison book remains in print and both it and the Hendrix book were expanded for new editions in 1995 and 1996. The two Elvis books, Elvis: A Biography (1971) and Elvis: The Final Years (1980), both long out of print, have been updated and were republished in one volume, Elvis: The Biography, in 2003.

His other books consider a wide range of subjects---music, history, the environment, humor, journalism, food, behavior modification, and Polynesian culture among them, the latter including a prize-winning history of the hula. These books have been published in 15 languages, bestsellers in many of them. Another Presley book, Elvis in Hawaii, appeared in 2002; a much expanded edition of his popular Strange Foods (1999) was published as Extreme Cuisine in 2004; a collection of stories and essays, Thailand Confidential, and a book of expatriate profiles, Bangkok Babylon, in 2005. A personal account of his search for the ultimate Asian turn-ons, Asian Aphrodisiacs, was published in 2006.

He was an editor and correspodent for Rolling Stone for 20 years and since moving to Thailand in 1993 his articles have appeared in numerous airline magazines and in such diverse publications as Condé Nast Traveler, GQ, Islands, Bizarre, Far Eastern Economic Review, Wine Spectator, Asian Wall Street Journal, Maxim, and The Village Voice.

He also has worked as a feature writer, reporter, and music critic for daily and weekly newspapers in New Orleans, New York, and Bangkok, and as a writer-producer in television for Mike Walace, Steve Allen, and Mort Sahl, as well as for ABC Television and Universal Studios.

He and his Thai-Khmer wife divide their time between a flat in Bangkok and a house on a rice farm a seven-hour train ride away.

He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Author’s Guild, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, the Siam Society, and the Explorers Club.