Born to Run

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed during the Super Bowl halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. Thus began this extraordinary autobiography.

For the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately dedicated himself to writing the story of his life, expressing on these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.

He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, surrounded by the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, up to the moment he calls 'The Big Bang': Elvis Presley's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as the bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also shares for the first time the personal struggles that inspired his best work, showing us why the song 'Born to Run' reveals more than we ever realized.

Born to Run will be enlightening for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than the memoirs of a legendary rock star. It is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and the lonely, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.

Rarely has an artist told their own story with such power and breadth. 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 unique songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has deeply reflected on his experiences.