Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the extraordinary inner life of the actor-writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as *Swimming to Cambodia.* Begun when he was twenty-five, Spalding Gray’s journals reflect on his childhood; his craving for success; the downtown New York arts scene of the 1970s; his love affairs, marriages, and fatherhood; his travels in Europe and Asia; and throughout, his passion for the theater, where he worked to balance his compulsion to tell all with his fear of having his deepest secrets exposed. *The Journals of Spalding Gray* gives us a haunting portrait of a creative genius who we thought had told us everything about himself—until now.