Elie Siegmeister, American Composer: A Bio-Bibliography is the first book-length treatment of the life and work of one of America's most vital and prolific composers, Elie Siegmeister. Leonard J. Lehrman, Siegmeister's protg, and pianist Kenneth O. Boulton have carefully amassed Siegmeister's entire oeuvre and collected it in this comprehensive listing of his work, which includes 20 stage, 41 orchestral, 14band, 37choral, 34chamber, and 40piano solo works, 159songs, and hundreds of choral arrangements that were performed internationally and conducted by such greats as Toscanini, Stokowski, Mitropoulos, and Maazel.

Leonard J. Lehrman is a conductor, pianist, and composer of more than 190 works, including ten operas and six musicals. He studied composition with Elie Siegmeister, is the cofounder of the Elie Siegmeister Society, and has performed his music in over one hundred concerts and on five CDs for Capstone and Original Cast Records. He is author of Marc Blitzstein: A Bio-Bibliography (2005) and editor of The Marc Blitzstein Songbook, v. 1-3(1999, 2001, 2003). Kenneth O. Boulton is associate professor of piano at Southeastern Louisiana University and has performed extensively as a piano and chamber musician in the United States and Europe. His most recent album, Louisiana: A Pianist's Journey, was nominated for a classical solo instrumental Grammy Award in 2007 and his recordings of Elie Siegmeister's solo piano music garnered international critical acclaim.