Jerry Lee Lewis

<p>The greatest Southern storyteller of our time <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Rick Bragg tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time Jerry Lee Lewis--and gets his own story from the source for the very first time.</p><p>A monumental figure on the American landscape Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday Louisiana and Natchez Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin--his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs drinking and women; nearly met his maker twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives and the indignity of an IRS raid that left 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 it all to be hailed as one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience.</p><p><em>Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story</em> is the Killer's life as he lived it and as he shared it over two years with our greatest bard of Southern life: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis's own words framed by Bragg's richly atmospheric narrative this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story come to life on the page.</p>