Ervin Somogyi’s autobiography is available for your reading pleasure, for free:

• Foreword
• CHAPTER 1; Ervin Somogyi 101
• CHAPTER 2; My beginnings
• CHAPTER 3; My father and my early years in Austria and England
• CHAPTER 4; The Oakland Hills fire; back in Budapest; my parents
• CHAPTER 5; The life of an immigrant, and life in Mexico and Canada
• CHAPTER 6; Arriving in the U.S., and life in my family
• CHAPTER 7; A next level of maturational challenge
• CHAPTER 8; Cuba; a shoddy deal; my sister, my uncle, and grandma
• CHAPTER 9; My take on faith, religion, and spirituality
• CHAPTER 10; Mexicali vs. Budapest ; College and Ka-Boom
• CHAPTER 11; The Peace Corps, Peru, and the University of Wisconsin @ Madison
• CHAPTER 12; Beautiful & exciting Rockford, Illiniois. Not. Then back in California, my marriage, and my first guitar.
• CHAPTER 13; Beauty, lack of beauty, my mother’s death, and luck
• CHAPTER 14; My life from my therapist’s perspective
• CHAPTER 15; my path, my “Day of the Dead” guitar, and perspectives
• CHAPTER 16; World War II statistics