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Review: 'The Greatest Songwriter of All Time' Finally Gets a Biography

Carole King became one of the most influential musicians in the '60s, '70s, and beyond.

Matt Welch | Coming: From the December 2025 issue


Carole King | Photo: <em>Carole King</em>/Yale University Press
(Photo: Carole King/Yale University Press)

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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