I'm Your Man represents the definitive biography of Leonard Cohen, tracing the Canadian poet and songwriter's remarkable journey across multiple artistic lives. Music journalist Sylvie Simmons conducted over one hundred interviews with Cohen's friends, lovers, collaborators, and the artist himself to construct this comprehensive portrait. The book follows Cohen from his bourgeois Jewish upbringing in Montreal through his early success as a poet, his unexpected pivot to music in his thirties, and his later years as a ordained Buddhist monk. Simmons illuminates the creative process behind songs like 'Suzanne' and 'Hallelujah,' revealing the obsessive perfectionism that kept Cohen revising lyrics for years. She explores his complicated relationships with women, including Marianne Ihlen and Janis Joplin, and his decades-long spiritual searching that led him to a Zen monastery on Mount Baldy. The biography captures Cohen's voice—wry, melancholic, endlessly self-questioning—and situates his work within the broader cultural movements of the 1960s and beyond. For fans seeking to understand the man behind the music, Simmons provides both the factual record and interpretive insight that bring a complex artist into focus.