Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

FIRST SCRIBNER EDITION. 2007 hardcover, Steve Martin (Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays). The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly. In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award-winner, author of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Martin has always been a writer. The memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written. - Amazon