Growing Up Laughing

This is the story of growing up with one of the world's funniest people, Eddie Murphy. It's a detailed account of what it was like in the intimate setting of his home, from day to day. What starts out as a close friendship between Harris and Eddie turns out to be much more when they discover that they could be related (cousins) by marriage between Eddie's mother and his stepfather Vernon Lynch. The story has also been turned into a movie screenplay also written by Harris Haith. The book version was written by Harris and Wallace Matthews of the New York Post .