Tim Greiving is an arts journalist and historian in Los Angeles who specializes in film music. He regularly writes for the Los Angeles Times, and has contributed stories and interviews to NPR, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Criterion, Variety, The Ringer, Los Angeles Magazine, and Vulture. He has written program notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Albert Hall, and liner notes for more than a hundred soundtrack albums.

His new book, John Williams: A Composer’s Life, is available now from Oxford University Press.