Steven Wright is 67 and says he performs less these days. The book’s central metaphor is a description of Harold’s thought process as a room with one window and a riot of birds flying around.

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." News. Home Page ; ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save “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 ...

Wright’s debut novel, “Harold,” is largely an effort to transpose his stand-up sensibility to fiction.Plotwise, very little happens. Its title hero is a 7-year-old boy attending his third ...

Steven Wright is a word guy, not a numbers guy. Every now and then, though, a number hits home, like when he was amazed to realize he had been performing comedy for 10 years. In two years, he said ...

Steven Wright’s lethargic vocal demeanor and nearly catatonic comedic delivery is no act. And if observing him perform his uniquely deadpan style of comedy lazily laced with non-sequiturs, one ...

Wright’s oldest friends are still awed by his one-of-a-kind, all-encompassing sense of humor. Eddie Brill met him when both were attending Emerson College in the late 1970s.