How did the sweet, sensitive son of Puerto Rican parents, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood on the far northern tip of Manhattan, become the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century? Examining Lin-Manuel Miranda’s development from his early musicals in high school and college to his transformation as the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, author of the  first biography of the writer-composer-actor-director, draws on more than one hundred fifty interviews with Miranda’s family, friends, partners, and mentors to showcase Miranda’s sources of creativity, namely his exceptional openness, curiosity, and collaboration and the synthesis of his Latino heritage with pop, hip-hop, and Broadway styles to create a dynamic new way to tell America’s oldest stories.