Soul Picnic

The first biography of the enigmatic and influential singer-songwriter. “Laura Nyro you can lump me in with, because Laura exerted an influence on me. I looked to her and took some direction from her.” —Joni Mitchell “She wrote about the world I lived in but infused it with so much passion that ordinary things-the weather, the river, the streets, the kids-glowed with a spiritual energy. Though we were plain, ordinary, nasty kids, when she sang she made us beautiful.”―Suzanne Vega Laura Nyro was