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b'Lily Brett didn\\u2019t care much for rock \\u2019n\\u2019 roll, but her job was with a\\xa0rock magazine, so, reluctantly, she hung out with Mick Jagger. And\\xa0Jimi Hendrix. And the Who and Cat Stevens and Jim Morrison and just\\xa0about any great rock star you can think of. It was the \\u201960s,\\xa0before musicians had publicists and armies of assistants, so Brett\\xa0could ask them just about anything she wanted. She did, which often\\xa0meant she would ask the rock stars about their parents or tell them\\xa0about hers, two Holocaust survivors who had given birth to their only\\xa0daughter in a German DP camp. The result was powerful journalism that\\xa0helped cement Brett\\u2019s reputation as one of her profession\\u2019s brightest\\xa0stars. She\\u2019s also an acclaimed novelist: Earlier this year, her latest\\xa0work of fiction, Lola Bensky, was released in her native Australia.\\xa0It\\u2019s about a young woman, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, who\\xa0becomes a rock journalist and travels to England and America and meets\\xa0some of rock \\u2019n\\u2019 roll\\u2019s most legendary performers and...

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