Growing Up Underground

<B>An entertaining coming-of-age memoir from Steven Heller, award-winning designer, writer, and former senior art director at the <I>New York Times</I>. Featuring 100 color photographs, <I>Growing Up Underground</I> takes readers on a visually inspired look back on being at the center of New York's youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.</B><BR/> <BR/>Steven Heller's memoir is no chronological trek through the hills and valleys of his comparatively "normal" life, but instead, a coming-of-age tale whereby, with luck and circumstance, he found himself in curious and remarkable places at critical times during the 1960s and ‘70s in New York City.<BR/> <BR/>Heller's delightful account of his life between the ages of 16 and 26 shows his ambitious journey from the start of his illustrious career as a graphic designer, cartoonist, and writer. Follow his journey through stints at the <I>New York Review of Sex, Screw,</I> and the <I>New York Free Press,</I> until he became the youngest art director (and occasional illustrator) for the <I>New York Times </I>Op-Ed page at age twenty-three.