The Bassoon King

<p>From the three-time Emmy nominated actor, climate activist, and author of <em>Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution</em>&mdash;Rainn Wilson's memoir is about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.</p> <p>For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of <em>The Office</em> fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and media company, <em>SoulPancake</em>, that eventually became a bestselling book of the same name. He also started a hilarious Twitter feed (sample tweet: "I'm not on Facebook" is the new "I don't even own a TV") that now has more than four million followers.</p> <p>Now, he's ready to tell his own story and explain how he came up with his incredibly unique sense of humor and perspective on life. He explains how he grew up "bone-numbingly nerdy before there was even a modicum of cool attached to the word." <em>The Bassoon King</em> chronicles his journey from nerd to drama geek ("the highest rung on the vast, pimply ladder of high school losers"), his years of mild debauchery and struggles as a young actor in New York, his many adventures and insights about <em>The Office</em>, and finally, Wilson's achievement of success and satisfaction, both in his career and spiritually, reconnecting with the artistic and creative values of the Bah&aacute;'&iacute; faith he grew up in.</p>