Must-Read Rock 'n' Roll Biographies

Photo by: Courtesy of Touchstone

The Boss comes into human-scale focus in Peter Ames Carlin's unauthorized biography, Bruce (Touchstone), in which the master lyricist emerges as a man of few words, but also (thanks to interviews with members of Springsteen's intimate circle, including his mother and manager) a man of single-minded ambition who found in music a way out from under the shadow of family tragedy.

Photo by: Courtesy of Touchstone

The Boss comes into human-scale focus in Peter Ames Carlin's unauthorized biography, Bruce (Touchstone), in which the master lyricist emerges as a man of few words, but also (thanks to interviews with members of Springsteen's intimate circle, including his mother and manager) a man of single-minded ambition who found in music a way out from under the shadow of family tragedy.