Which artist wrote such songs as "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Visions of Johanna"?

The music artist who wrote such songs as "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Visions of Johanna" is Bob Dylan. Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in May 1941. He is an American singer-songwriter, music critic, and book writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than fifty years. Much of his most celebrated music dates from the 1960s. At that time, his songs chronicled social unrest and needed changes; but, Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. His lyrics were incorporating various political, social, philosophical, and literary influences.

His early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. After he left his initial base in the American folk music, his six-minute song "Like a Rolling Stone" altered the range of popular music in 1965. His mid-1960s rock recordings reached the top end of the U.S. music charts while also attracting denunciation and criticism from critics and artists in the folk song movement.

In October 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. During his acceptance speech, he delivered some insights that are now memorialized in a book. "The Nobel Lecture" is where Dylan reflects on his life and experience with literature, singing, and songwriting. It is an intimate look at him as a unique American icon in both literature and music.