List of Authors part 2

List of Iron Maiden Related Authors

On this page you can see a list of all Iron Maiden related authors and read their biographies, and you can see a list of their books at this link, including links for purchase, if the books are still available on the market. The authors are not arranged alphabetically, chronologically, or in any other logical order and will be rotated periodically, so that each of them gets enough attention. This list will be updated until all authors are listed. If you notice that someone is missing, please let us know. We will gradually do an interview with each author, and a review of each book. See the list of authors below.

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STJEPAN JURAS (CROATIA) is a biographer with an impressive number of over 25 published Maiden related books (English language), many of which have been translated into Portuguese (for the Brazilian market), and some into Italian and Spanish. In 2025 alone, he intends to publish four new Iron Maiden related books. He is the initiator of the the Iron Maiden books project, and he turned his hobby into what he now lives on. In addition to the Iron Maiden world, he published the official biography of the biggest hard rock / metal band from the area of ex-Yugoslavia ‘Divlje Jagode’. He intends to write about Iron Maiden for the rest of his life and believes that even if he wrote over 100 books, he would say too little. He started writing at an early age in school projects, and later became a journalist for several daily newspapers and magazines, including Playboy and Metal Detector. Stjepan, in addition to biographies, writes poetry and novels, several of which he plans to place on the world market by 2030.

Iron Maiden Books considers the project a significant step forward for all authors around the world (official and unofficial), who write about Iron Maiden and thus contribute to the written word perpetuating this band for new generations and to preserving history in one place. You can find all his Maiden related work at this link.

HARRI LINNERA (FINLAND) is an author and editor from the fiery woods of North Karelia, Finland. His horror and crime stories have been published in various anthologies and magazines, e.g. Kuiskaus pimeässä (“Whisper in the Darkness”) and Kuolleen silmät (“Eyes of the Dead”). He has also published couple of book-length works, Suomalaisia pahan mielen tarinoita (“Stories of Finnish Gloom”, 2021) and Sama vanha sade (“Same Old Rain”, 2023). In addition to his horror and crime pursuits, Linnera has participated in various metal-related publications, e.g. Miasma Magazine and is currently the editor-in-chief of Harrowing Tines fanzine. His history with the metal music goes back to as far as carefree childhood days in the eighties. At the moment he is about to unveil his second novel, Famulus, which deals with the devil myths of his home region.

Blog: https://terrahorrificus.blogspot.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pahanmielentarinoita
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enthropian

RAFAŁ DŁUŻYŃSKI (POLAND) has been an Iron Maiden/metal fan since the autumn of 1983, and he has been collecting music resources, records, vinyl, merchandise offers, and paper materials such as press articles, zines, magazines, memorabilia, etc., for many years. He is a journalist, sociologist, and motivational coach, and he mainly uses all these professions as sources of income. His true and only love is music as a product of human imagination.

In the past, he has collaborated with local music websites and known music media such as Metal Hammer, RockMetal.pl, Atmospheric Zine, Musick Mag, Gazeta Muzyczna, and Sanktuarium FC, among many others. He is the author of the very first Iron Maiden biography written by a Polish music journalist titled 0Iron Maiden Kompendium’. It was released via several music websites and the Issuu platform for free. This e-book (a kind of) is a self-made product with no price or authorization from the band’s camp, but it is uncensored and presents a fan’s perspective on every aspect of Maiden’s activity from 1975 to 2011.

Rafał is also the admin and author of the Maiden-oriented music blog https://ironmaiden50.blogspot.com and the Facebook page titled Iron Maiden Poland & Clive Burr – Tribute. As he said, he has gained his knowledge for free and shares it for free.

This is Rafał’s free ebook:
https://issuu.com/rafaldluzynsji/docs/iron_maiden_-_kompendium

ERWIN LUCAS (NETHERLANDS) Born in the Netherlands in 1972 Erwin became a Maiden fan in 1986 when he heard Wasted Years for the first time. His first Iron Maiden concert was the famous Monsters Of Rock Festival in Tilburg in 1988 and he never missed a Maiden concert in the Netherlands since then. Erwin started collecting solo stuff and all kinds of data about things all Iron Maiden members and ex-members did before, during, and after the time they were in Maiden since Bruce and Adrian did their solo albums. 10 years ago, Erwin started to write all this data down in a book which became he first book called ‘Outside Iron Maiden’. After that it all went like a rollercoaster. Erwin got to meet all the ex-members when he got really close with Terry Wapram, so he and his mate Andy came up with the idea to do a compilation album with a few ex-members: ‘Origins Of Iron’. Following the album they did ‘Burr-Fest’ in 2017 and a few years after that until Covid ruined it all. Burr-‘Fest’ made it happen to get bands like Airforce and Gypsy’s Kiss back together and to get Tony Moore introduced back to the Maiden fans. Well. we all know what happened to those bands…. In 2022, Erwin decided to write a part 2 of his book, because of all the new information and all new releases by all Maiden men. It got releases in 2023 while Erwin was on a small promotion tour he did with the acoustic Iron Maiden tribute band MaidenUnited with Dennis Stratton on guitar.

Find Erwin’s book by clicking here.

NEIL DANIELS (UNITED KINGDOM) has written about rock, metal and pop culture for a wide range of magazines, fanzines and websites. He has penned books on Judas Priest, Robert Plant, Linkin Park, Bon Jovi and Journey, and co-authored Dawn Of The Metal Gods: My Life In Judas Priest & Heavy Metal with original Judas Priest singer/co-founder Al Atkins. His third book on Judas Priest is Rock Landmarks: Judas Priest’s British Steel. His acclaimed series, All Pens Blazing: A Rock & Heavy Metal Writer’s Handbook Volumes I & II, collects over a hundred original and exclusive interviews with some of the world’s most famous rock and heavy metal scribes. His other duel collection, Rock ‘N’ Roll Mercenaries – Interviews With Rock Stars Volumes I & II, compiles over sixty interviews with many well-known rock stars and rock writers. His books have so far been translated into Portugese, Bulgarian, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Swedish with more foreign titles in the works. 2012 saw the publication of his books on Metallica, Iron Maiden and You Me At Six. 2013/14 saw the release of his books on AC/DC, Pantera, UFO, ZZ Top, Bon Jovi and Iron Maiden. It’s not just rock ‘n’ roll. Matthew McConaughey – The Biography was published in November 2014 by John Blake Publishing. 2015 saw the release of more film biographies, including actor Martin Freeman and film director J.J. Abrams. He can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Tumblr. He has author pages on both Amazon US and UK sites. Further details can also be found on Wikipedia. His primary interests are music, films and books. He has a degree in Film Studies. Read more here.

ADRIAN SMITH (UNITED KINGDOM) grew up in London and became interested in rock music at 15. He soon formed a friendship with future Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray, who inspired him to take up the guitar. After leaving school at 16, he formed the band Urchin, which he led until their demise in 1980. He joined Iron Maiden in November 1980, replacing Dennis Stratton. Following a short-lived solo project called ASAP, he left Iron Maiden in 1990 and, after a year-long hiatus, formed the band The Untouchables which later became Psycho Motel. In 1997, Psycho Motel was put on hold when Smith joined the band of former Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson. Smith and Dickinson would both return to Iron Maiden in 1999, after which the band gained new success. During his second tenure with Iron Maiden, Smith has also led the side projects Primal Rock Rebellion and Smith/Kotzen. In April 2020, ironmaiden.com announced Smith’s autobiography titled Monsters of River and Rock would be released in September 2020. The book primarily details Smith’s love of fishing, and relates anecdotes from his many decades of pursuing the hobby whilst touring and recording with Iron Maiden. Smith stated that around 70% of his book was focused upon fishing, with the remaining content discussing his music career. In its review of the publication, MetalTalk described the book as “a prize catch amongst rock biographies – highly recommended.” In addition to being the author of his autobiography, his only book so far, Adrian is a respected lyricist and has a number of hits under his belt, such as the Iron Maiden songs ‘Wasted Years’ and ‘Stranger in the Strange Land’.

PAUL ANDREWS (UNITED KINGDOM), better known by his stage name Paul Di’Anno, was an English heavy metal singer who was the lead vocalist for Iron Maiden from 1978 to 1981. In his post-Maiden career, Di’Anno issued numerous albums over the years, as both a solo artist and as a member of bands such as Gogmagog, Di’Anno’s Battlezone, Killers, Rockfellas, and Warhorse. Together with fellow Iron Maiden member Dennis Stratton, he joined Praying Mantis for the recording of their 1990 live album Live at Last. Di’Anno released an autobiography titled ‘The Beast’. The book includes a chapter of stories and comments regarding Di’Anno written by former bandmates including Dennis Stratton, John Wiggins and Steve Hopgood. The book was controversial for its portrayal of his abuse of various drugs, many accounts of Di’Anno’s violence towards people, and the explanation of his ban from America. He often said that he was working on his book on ancient British history, which he claimed to have studied intensively, but he had not done anything of the sort by the time of his death.

BRUCE DICKINSON (UNITED KINGDOM) is an English singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day. Dickinson began his career in the 1970s. In 1979, he joined British new wave heavy metal band Samson, with whom he gained popularity under the stage name “Bruce Bruce” and performed on two studio records. He left Samson in 1981 to join Iron Maiden, replacing Paul Di’Anno, and debuted on their 1982 album The Number of the Beast. Dickinson quit Iron Maiden in 1993 (being replaced by Blaze Bayley) to pursue his solo career. He rejoined the band in 1999, along with guitarist Adrian Smith, He has released two further solo records. Outside his career in music, Dickinson has pursued a number of other activities. (commercial pilot for example), In 2012 he created his own aircraft maintenance and pilot training company, Cardiff Aviation. Dickinson presented his own radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2002 to 2010, and has also hosted television documentaries, authored novels and film scripts, created a beer with Robinsons Brewery and competed at fencing internationally. During a 1986–1987 Maiden tour, Dickinson started writing his first book. Inspired by the novels of Tom Sharpe, in addition to Biggles and Penthouse, he created The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace, The novel sold more than 40,000 copies almost immediately. Due to the high demand, Sidgwick & Jackson asked Dickinson to produce a sequel, which became 1992’s The Missionary Position, a satire of televangelism. Dickinson also turned his hand to scriptwriting, co-authoring Chemical Wedding with director Julian Doyle. The film, in which Dickinson played a few cameo roles and composed the soundtrack, was released in 2008. In 2015, HarperCollins and Dey Street announced that they would publish Dickinson’s memoirs. What Does This Button Do? was released on 19 October 2017.

CESAR FUENTOS RODRIGUEZ (ARGENTINA) has a well known background into the music business as a specialized journalist and writer. He started his writing career in the early 80s in Buenos Aires City. He is the founder of MADHOUSE & EPOPEYA magazines that were published in Argentina with a great repercussion in South America. Cesar is also recognized as a host and producer of a TV Show called POWER 30 of the MUCH MUSIC network and the same for a radio show called Ave Cesar . Cesar Fuentes Rodriguez contributes for a number of local and international magazines such as REQUIEM ( Argentina ), HEAVY ROCK ( Spain ), FORCE MAGAZINE ( Spain ), HARD ROCK ( Australia ), ROCK BRIGADE ( Brazil ), MAELSTROM ( Argentina ), H M ( Mexico ) and IRON PAGES ( Germany ). He has published two books in Spanish: Iron Maiden and Gothic World , both sold out in Spain and South America. If you want to know more about work of Cesar Fuentos Rodrigues you can check all his activities at this link.

ROSS HALFIN (UNITED KINGDOM) Ross William Halfin is a British rock music photographer. Since the late 1970s he has worked for some of the biggest acts in rock and heavy metaL. Halfin shoots both freelance and assignment pieces, for magazines and clients directly. He has toured with many bands, including Metallica, Iron Maiden, Status Quo, Def Leppard, The Who, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Jam, Blondie, Mötley Crüe, Van Halen, Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age and The Mars Volta. Halfin began his career working for Sounds magazine in the 1970s, shooting various artists on the punk scene including The Clash, The Jam, The Sex Pistols, 999 and The Adverts. After linking up with writers Geoff Barton and Peter Makowski, Halfin moved on to working mainly in the US with bands such as Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Bon Jovi, UFO, Rush, Journey, Aerosmith and Black Sabbath. In 1980, Halfin became chief photographer of new music magazine Kerrang!, photographing their first cover of AC/DC. He continued shooting with them for the next 20 years. Halfin took the last photo of Bon Scott alive in 1980, alongside UFO bassist Pete Way. In the 1990s, Halfin took to travel photography on a casual but obscure basis, but his work would later resurface in an issue of Genesis Publications in 2011. As a photographer, he has published or co-authored many books: Iron Maiden: Running Free – The Official Story of Iron Maiden, 1984, Zomba Books, Iron Maiden: A photographic history, The Photographer’s Led Zeppelin, Fragile: Human Organs, Metallica, Ross Halfin’s Work: Bon Jovi, Maximum Who: The Who In The Sixties, Iron Maiden, 2008, Vision On Publishing, The Ultimate Metallica, Def Leppard: The Definitive Visual History, Sojourner: Ross Halfin Travels, 2011, Metallica: The Black Album in Black & White, Pete Way by Ross Halfin, Ritchie Blackmore by Ross Halfin, Led Zeppelin Vinyl: The Essential Collection book, Edward Van Halen By Ross Halfin, Randy Rhoads by Ross Halfin, Listen to Whitford by Ross Halfin, The Black Crowes by Ross Halfin, WASP by Ross Halfin, The Collection: Slash, Bon Jovi by Ross Halfin, A Photographic History Of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Queensrÿche by Ross Halfin, Velvet Revolver by Ross Hafin. More about Ross Halfin you can find at www.rosshalfin.com

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