FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg returns to biography territory Oct. 28 with the long-awaited publication of "Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story." To hear Bragg tell it, he's ...

“All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote, directed and ...

It’s a source of continuing amazement that Jerry Lee Lewis, of all people, has turned out to be the last man standing out of the original batch of early rock greats that emerged from Sam Phillips’ Sun ...

With guest host Jane Clayson. Southern storyteller Rick Bragg’s big, new biography of “The Killer”—Jerry Lee Lewis. Jimmy Velvet, Jerry Lee Lewis, Don Everly and Buddy Holly in an undated photograph. ...

LARGER THAN LIFE: The legendary pianist and singer has stories to tell. "Jerry Lee don't claim to ride no tornado, but he did hit a man in the face with the butt end of a microphone stand," says ...

Jerry Lewis remains one of Hollywood's most influential comedy stars of all time – but the actor and director was also well known for his explosive personality away from the cameras. Lewis was never ...

In this new authorized biography, Rick Bragg has tried to write the grand sweeping definitive account of Jerry Lee Lewis’s outrageous life, and harness Lewis into telling it. But as the book itself ...

Even in his last years, Jerry Lewis had the biting humor he built a career on Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has appeared in ...

Rick Saphire, who managed Jerry Lewis for the last decade and a half of his life, says parsing fact from fiction about the comedy legend is no easy feat. “I always used to say that the two worst ...

The Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Jerry Lewis onstage at the 51st Annual ICG Publicists Awards held at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 28, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.