“Writing about yourself is a dirty job. But in a project like this, the author has made a promise – to share with the reader what is on his mind. This is what I attempted to do in the pages that follow.” Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen dedicated seven years to writing the story of his life and offers the same honesty, humor, and authenticity found in his songs.

He describes how he grew up in a Catholic family in Freehold, New Jersey, surrounded by the poetry, danger, and darkness that ignited his imagination until the moment he describes as the “Big Bang”: when he saw Elvis Presley’s first appearance on American television.

He vividly recounts the passion he had to become a musician, his early live shows in the bars of Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming honesty, he shares for the first time his personal struggles that inspired his best works and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals much more than we thought.

Born to Run will be enlightening for anyone who has enjoyed Bruce Springsteen's songs, but this book is something greater than an autobiography of a legendary rock star.

It's a book for workers and dreamers, for parents and children, for lovers and loners, for artists, freaks, or anyone else who wanted to dive into the waters of the sacred river of rock and roll.

Rarely has an artist shared their story with such power and sincerity. 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”), Bruce Springsteen's autobiography is written with the lyricism of a unique songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has deeply reflected on the experiences of his life.