Seattle-based writer Charles Cross has been an Espy Resident in June 2002, March 2005, and March 2006. He has written several celebrated books, including Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain and Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. Charles is highly regarded as an authority on Northwest pop culture and music. He will be returning to Espy during the month of October to work on a memoir about parenting and his latest biography.

Charles’s latest book, Cobain Unseen came out this month. As he describes it, the book is “a visual biography of Cobain’s creative life.” Cross explains that as a biographer, he is very limited in the number of photos he can include in a book. “This is a chance to bring together all of the visual art that Cobain created throughout his life—from greeting cards he made in the second grade and visual journal entries to undeveloped photographs that have been in storage since his death.” Cross describes the book as a portrait of a musician as a young artist. “It’s really a different way of understanding Cobain.”

Espy residencies have played a part in Charles Cross’s writing career, offering him the uninterrupted time he needed to complete Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix.

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