Alan Paul is a senior writer for Slam and Guitar World magazines. While living in Beijing, China, he wrote The Expat Life column for WSJ.com from 2005-2009, for which he was named the 2008 Columnist of the Year by The National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He has written several books including Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues and Becoming a Star in Beijing and One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band.