I hung on every single word of this well told story, and finished up with tears streaming down my cheeks. Me Springsteen's book moved me beyond words. He is the recipient of 20 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

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.Īuthor bio: Bruce Springsteen has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. 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. 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.īorn 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. 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. 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. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to this audio the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. In these pages, I've tried to do this.' (Bruce Springsteen, from the audio of Born to Run) But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise: to show the reader his mind.

'Writing about yourself is a funny business. Winner of the 2018 Audie Award for Autobiography/Memoir

We were born to run