JOURNALIST • AUTHOR • FILM MUSIC EVANGELIST

About Tim

Tim Greiving is an arts journalist and historian in Los Angeles who specializes in film music. He regularly writes for the Los Angeles Timesand has contributed stories and interviews to NPR, the Washington Post, the New York TimesCriterionVarietyThe RingerLos 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. He contributes to the Visual History Program for the Academy, and teaches film music history at the University of Southern California.

His new book, the first major biography of composer John Williams, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2025.

tim at timgreiving dot com