Artist Info: Ratso

'Ratso' is the nickname of the New York, NY, United States-based author, Larry Sloman (b. 1950).

Sloman was born into a middle-class Jewish family from Queens. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Howard Stern on the radio personality's two best-selling books, 'Private Parts' and 'Miss America'. He also appears in all of Kinky Friedman's mystery novels as the Dr. Watson to Kinky's Sherlock. Sloman wrote an account of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour, 'On The Road With Bob Dylan'. [read more...]