"Gregory Spatz writes about the experience of playing music 
with more truth and beauty than it has ever been written about 
before. If you care about music, you'll love this book. If you love 
bluegrass, you'd better buy half a dozen copies, because you'll 
lend it to friends who won't return it."—David Huddle


In deceptively simple prose mirroring the understatement of 
bluegrass music, Fiddler's Dream tells the story of a young 
musician of prodigious talent who pursues his dream of 
becoming one of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys as he tracks 
the whereabouts of his missing musician father.


"Spatz renews the timeless odyssey of a gifted young man 
seeking his fortune and his father. With its sure-fingered 
rhythms and long, gorgeous passages of prose, Fiddler's 
Dream contains some of the best writing I've ever read 
about music."—Lan Samantha Chang

"A lovely and evocative story, told with precision and infinite 
care. This is the best writing about making music since Frank 
Conroy's Body and Soul."—Mark Childress

"Spatz's control of language and metaphor is masterful. An 
outstanding work. Read this one!"—Gordon Weaver

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GREGORY SPATZ is the author of the novel No One But Us 
and a story collection, Wonderful Tricks. His stories have 
appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, 
Iowa Review, and New England Review. The recipient of a 
Michener Fellowship, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and a 
Washington State Book Award, he teaches at Eastern 
Washington University in Spokane. Spatz plays the fiddle in 
the acclaimed bluegrass band John Reischman and the Jaybirds.