The influential stand-up wanted to “pour everything I think about being alive” into the book, which is told from the point of view of a 7-year-old.

Comedian Steven Wright's debut novel, "Harold," tracks the interior life of a young boy much like Steven Wright.

“I'm just trying to make them laugh,” says Steven Wright. “I don't focus on emotion.” The 68-year-old comedian and actor, who’s built a career on setting the bar for the definition of ...

Steven Wright is performing in Harrisburg on Nov. 5. He shared his four rules of comedy for when he is creating his own stand-up routines.

The debut novel from legendary stand-up comedian Steven Wright, Harold is about the kaleidoscopic mind of an ever-curious 7-year-old boy in the ’60s as he floats through his day; his rollicking ...

Steven Wright : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn If you ask just about any alternative comic from the last twenty years to name their influences, one name you're sure to see come up is Steven Wright.

For a guy who usually looks so mournful, Steven Wright has been making a lot of people laugh for 40 years. A standup comic, Wright has an almost patented delivery: Deadpan, almost dead, his pipe ...

Comedian Steven Wright has written his first novel, “Harold.” Richard Tilkin At 7 years old, Harold already has some pretty advanced thoughts.

Steven Wright has built a decades-long stand-up comedy career out of telling brilliant, bizarre and biting one-liners such as these.

Steven Wright, king of laconic one-liners, wrote the delightfully loopy novel "Harold" because he wanted to break free of stand-up's "very narrow window of creativity." ...

Such is the distinctiveness of Steven Wright's stand-up – the bone-dry, deadpan delivery and the philosophical enquiry of his jokes – that when confronted by the sheer insularity of his debut novel, ...