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Just as I am : a memoir / Cicely Tyson ; with Michelle Burford ; foreword by Viola Davis.
Van Pelt Library PN2287.T97 A3 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tyson, Cicely, author.
- Burford, Michelle, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tyson, Cicely.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- United States.
- African American actors--Biography.
- African American actors.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
- Summary:
- The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.
- Tyson has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. She has been the church girl who once rarely spoke a word; the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. A daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend, she is also an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. Here, in her ninth decade, Tyson is a woman who has something meaningful to say. -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PLANTED
- 1. The Vow
- 2. String Bean
- 3. Church Girl
- 4. Transitions
- 5. The Other America
- 6. Unspoken
- 7. Ground Shifts
- 8. Divinely Guided
- 9. Shoulder Taps
- 10. Center Stage
- pt. TWO ROOTED
- 11. Riverside Park
- 12. Going Natural
- 13. 1968
- 14. Rebecca
- 15. Jane Pittman
- 16. Endings and Beginnings
- 17. The Ladder
- 18. Roots
- 19. Thanksgiving Day
- 20. Threadbare
- 21. Lesson Before Dying
- pt. THREE BOUNTIFUL
- 22. A Strong Harvest
- 23. Trip to Bountiful
- 24. When Great Trees Fall
- 25. Just as I Am.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780062931061
- 0062931067
- 9780063072565
- 0063072564
- OCLC:
- 1230502793
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