New York Situations Bestseller

The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, NY Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the best rock and roller ever, Jerry Lee Lewis-and gets his own story, from the foundation, for the first time.

A monumental figure within the American landscaping, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood bringing up hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of about Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story Fireplace,” that gave rock and roll its devil’s edge; triggered riots and boycotts with his incendiary shows; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin-his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of medicines, drinking, and females; nearly met his maker, double; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, as well as the indignity of an IRS raid that remaining him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock-and survived everything to become hailed as “one of the most innovative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm from the Southern knowledge.”

Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story may be the Killer’s life as he lived it, so that as he shared it over two years with our ideal bard of Southern life: Rick Bragg. High with Lewis’s own words, framed by Bragg’s richly atmospheric narrative, this is actually the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the web page.