Dylan's Self-Portrait.

The article presents a profile of musician Bob Dylan. Bob has maintained he can't or won't be known through his personal history. In Chronicles: Volume One (Simon and Schuster), a collection of open, revealing memoir-meditations; Dylan has chosen to share some of his passages of life. He conjures up rooms full of living history, full of the famous and the unknown, and he tells how they walked, talked, looked and why they mattered, from Harry Belafonte and Woody Guthrie to Jack Dempsey and Tiny Tim (the latter whom Dylan shared French fries with when they were both working for food).