Five months after John Lennon was murdered, Fred Seaman gave Lennon's large leather journals to Robert Rosen. The idea was that Rosen would write the story of his last five years in seclusion in the Dakota; he was told it was what Lennon wanted. But Seaman had acted alone, and after Yoko Ono fired him, he stole Rosen's manuscript and notes. Though Rosen does not quote from the journals, per Ono's wishes, his illustrated biography is a deeply informed and intimate journey through those years, exploring Lennon's relationships, parenthood, drug use, and religious forays, his contradictory desires and minor obsessions, up to his creative renewal and re-entry into public life with Double Fantasy.