which Vibe magazine called one of the best music books ever written. In 2001, Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, landed on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2002 ASCAP ...

In 2001, Cross published Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain ... It prompted Cross to write his first book, Backstreets: Springsteen, the Man and His Music, and release it in 1989.