Mark Ribowsky's Hank has been hailed as the ``greatest biography yet`` ( Library Journal , starred review) of the beloved icon.
Hank Williams, a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star, instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr when he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine.
Six decades later, Ribowsky traces the miraculous rise of this music legend?from the dirt roads of rural Alabama to the now-immortal stage of the Grand O.