John Williams: A Composer’s Life, published by Oxford University Press in September 2025, is the first biography by this arts journalist. Grieving, a longtime fan of Williams’ celebrated film scores, has contributed stories to NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. He has written program notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Albert Hall, and liner notes for more than one hundred soundtrack albums. He also contributes to the Visual History Program for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and teaches film music history at the University of Southern California. Tim Grieving was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member Brian Jay Jones.