# Bob Dylan and his family

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 12, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-and-his-family/395633 "2007-03-12T17:33:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-and-his-family/395633/1 "2007-03-12T17:33:22Z")

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Did Bob Dylan have much contact with his parents after he left home after highschool? Did have much contact with anyone in his family? I think he worked with one his brothers or something at some point.

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bob-dylan-and-his-family/395633/2 "2007-03-12T18:47:54Z")

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Dylan’s always been pretty elusive about his personal relationships, but it seems that he had contact with his mother most of her life (his dad died in 1968, his mom in 2000). I also read an interview somewhere where he said that he spent a lot of time with his grandmother growing up, and that he loved and missed her very much.

Here’s an interview with his mother, done around the time one of his sons was bar mitzvah’d in Israel:

[http://www.jewhoo.com/editor/interviews/beattyrutman/](http://www.jewhoo.com/editor/interviews/beattyrutman/)