Born Standing Up | Steve Martin

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.
His memoir of his years in stand-up is candid, spectacularly amusing, and beautifully written.