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 ...

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 ...

A consummate entertainer and world-renowned humanitarian, Jerry Lewis is not just a cultural icon in the United States — he’s one of the most easily recognized personalities on the planet. Widely ...

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 ...

Jerry Lewis, the legendary actor, comedian and director, has died, his publicist and his agent confirmed to CBS News. He was 91. Lewis, who teamed up with Dean Martin in the 1950s, and later starred ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Comedian Jerry Lewis was once in so much pain that he regularly contemplated suicide. A "pain pacemaker" implanted in 2002 now enables him to trigger electronic impulses through his ...

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 ...