2018 Audie Award Finalist
2018 GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE for BEST SPOKEN WORD or NON-MUSICAL ALBUM
"Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like
this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In
these pages, I've tried to do this." --Bruce Springsteen, from the pages
of Born to Run
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super
Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce
decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography
began.
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted
himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the
same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.
He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the
poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to
the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang" seeing Elvis Presley's debut
on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to
become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and
the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for
the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his
best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we
previously realized.
Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce
Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's
memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children,
lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be
baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.
Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep.
Like many of his songs ("Thunder Road," "Badlands," "Darkness on the
Edge of Town," "The River," "Born in the U.S.A.," "The Rising," and "The
Ghost of Tom Joad," to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen's
autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and
the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.
