An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning
designer, writer, and former senior art director at the New York
Times. Featuring 100 color photographs, Growing Up Underground takes
readers on a visually inspired look back on being at the center of New
York's youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Steven Heller's memoir is no chronological trek through the hills and
valleys of his comparatively "normal" life, but instead, a coming-of-age
tale whereby, with luck and circumstance, he found himself in curious
and remarkable places at critical times during the 1960s and '70s in New
York City.
Heller's delightful account of his life between the ages of 16 and 26
shows his ambitious journey from the start of his illustrious career as
a graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer. Follow his journey through
stints at the New York Review of Sex, Screw, and the New York Free
Press, until he became the youngest art director (and occasional
illustrator) for the New York Times Op-Ed page at age twenty-three.