Description Best known for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie rock star after performing at the 1997 Academy Awards.
He now resides in New York City..
Like Elliott Smith, he has lived in Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Amherst, Massachusetts.
He has written for New York Magazine and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR.
About the Author Benjamin Nugent is a former music and film reporter for Time magazine.
Drawing on new interviews with those who knew and loved Smith, and focusing on the crucial interplay between Smith\'s life and music, Ben Nugent compellingly and sympathetically portrays an enormously gifted, yet troubled, artist.
A., he fell into a downward spiral evident to friends and fans alike, even as he continued to write such beautifully realized songs as "Waltz #2" (XO).
First relocating to Brooklyn, and then finally to L.
In the afterglow of the success of "Miss Misery," Smith\'s fame grew--alongside his struggles with depression and substance abuse.
Some of his albums, XO and Either/Oramong them, would become \'90s classics, helping to define an understated aesthetic that owed as much to the melodic emphasis of The Beatles as it did to punk.
Description Best known for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie rock star after performing at the 1997 Academy Awards
