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Also Known As Robert Allen Zimmerman
Born May 24, 1941 (age 83) • Duluth • Minnesota
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • Nobel Prize (2016) • Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012) • Grammy Award (2006) • Academy Award (2001) • Grammy Award (2001) • Grammy Award (1997) • Kennedy Center Honors (1997) • Grammy Award (1994) • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (1988) • Grammy Award (1979) • Grammy Award (1972)
Notable Works “Another Side of Bob Dylan” • “Before the Flood” • “Blonde On Blonde” • “Blood on the Tracks” • “Bringing It All Back Home” • “Desire” • “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” • “John Wesley Harding” • “Nashville Skyline” • “Street-Legal” • “The Basement Tapes” • “The Times They Are A-Changin’ ” • “Time Out of Mind”
Subjects Of Study “Don’t Look Back” • “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan” • “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese”

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