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Viola Davis is a national treasure. She’s a woman who has gone from childhood poverty to the Academy Awards as the youngest to win an Academy, Emmy and Tony Award in the acting categories, the Triple Crown of Acting. Time has named her one of the most inspirational people in the world and it is with that that her story is one that has to be told. And it will be very soon.
A new Viola Davis memoir by HarperOne will be released next April covering her rise with her becoming one of the most influential actors we know today. “I cannot believe my life, I just can’t. I’m so blessed” she has previously said.
She won an Oscar for her starring role in the 2016 film adaptation of August Wilson’s drama “Fences,” an Emmy for “How to Get Away with Murder,” and Tonys for “Fences” and “King Hedley II.”
“I believe that our stories, and the courage to share them, is the most powerful empathetic tool we have,” she said in a statement. “This is my story … straight no chaser.”
And this is a woman who dug through trash where there was maggots for food as a child that lived in a condemned building that was boarded up and filled with rats. She said she was one of those kids that were poor and knew it.
Finding Me will be released in conjunction with Ebony Magazine Publishing.
“Viola Davis is a powerful truth teller — through her work on stage and screen, as well as in her life,” HarperOne president and publisher Judith Curr said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to working with her on a book that powerfully reveals the risk and danger for a Black woman living in the fullness of her talents and gifts — and the reward and freedom that comes with it.”
Will you be picking up Viola Davis’ memoir when it’s out April 19th, 2022?
