New York stage and screen actor Steven Axelrod, who performed his award-winning autobiographical one-man show “Blue Collar Bay” off-Broadway and on tour throughout the country, is now delighted to share his fascinating life story in the form of a moving, new memoir “Surf Avenue.”

Axelrod’s father, Solly, had his son pegged for his news truck delivery route from the beginning. But Axelrod knew there had to be something else out there.

In “Surf Avenue,” he shares the story of his life as a tough Jewish boy growing up in Queens and his quest to escape the blue-collar footsteps his father left for him to follow.

Humor and resilience take Axelrod through the challenges of growing up in Cambria Heights, Queens in the 1950s.

His father, a second-generation truck driver for the Daily News, wishes for nothing more than to see Axelrod in the driver’s seat of his own truck, hauling newspapers for a living. However, despite steady work with union benefits, this former high school dropout has an entirely different life in mind.

Axelrod’s escape from Queens and his father’s grip takes him on a poignant search for himself—and through a world without self-imposed boundaries or limits.

From a stint in the US Marine Corps to a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, an acting career, and beyond, Axelrod’s life takes many poignant and sometimes shocking swerves—with one constant: the secret insatiable desire for his father’s approval.

Can he find wholeness?

About the author: Stephen Axelrod is a professional, New York-based actor who has worked off Broadway (Grandma Sylvias Funeral, The American Clock), in film, television (Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Gotham, Daredevil, Plot against America, Ransom, and In the Soup), and commercials.

He’s written and performed two autobiographical, one-man shows (Blue Collar Bay, Surf Avenue) for which he’s traveled throughout the country for ten years.

Axelrod is a graduate of Hunter College with a degree in theater, a recipient of the Jerry Kaufman Award in Playwriting, a former member of the New York Stock Exchange and served four years in the US Marine Corps.

This author event will take place at the Great Neck Library at 159 Bayview Ave., Great Neck on Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 2 p.m. No registration is required; first come, first seated.

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

For more information, please contact Great Neck Library at (516) 466-8055 or email adultprogramming@greatnecklibrary.org.