9 musicians who have broken into the literary world

Here are nine other musicians who have published novels, short stories, poetry, and children’s books.

8. Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s oldest daughter from his first marriage, and a successful singer/songwriter in her own right, published a book of short stories called “Bodies of Water”. Publisher’s Weekly said Cash wrote “with persistent earnestness, if not skill.” Cash went on to write a children’s book called Penelope Jane: A Fairy’s Tale. The Kirkus review of this work was harsher, pointing out the book’s “extra-wide margins,” yet also conceding that it was a cut above most celebrity writing.

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