Eggs I Have Laid

Back in print: the playful and personal memoir of Meredith Willson’s creative tribulations and triumphs before The Music Man

Composer, musical director, writer, lecturer, and piccoloist Meredith Willson laid many eggs throughout his career—but not all those eggs would hatch quite so gloriously as his Broadway hit The Music Man. In Eggs I Have Laid, Willson genially chronicles the failures that he faced as he made his place in show business during the pivotal early 1950s, when radio was bein...