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Author:
Michael K. Williams, Jon Sternfeld
Publisher:
Crown
Date:
August 23, 2022
When Michael K. Williams died on September 6, 2021, he left behind a career as one of the most electrifying actors of his generation, most notable as Omar Little in The Wire. At the time of his death, Williams had nearly finished a memoir that tells the story of his past while looking to the future, a book that merges his life and his life's work. Mike, as his friends knew him, was so much more than an actor. In Scenes from My Life, he traces his life in whole, from his childhood in East Flatbush and his early years as a dancer to his battles with addiction and the bar fight that left his face with his distinguishing scar.
What The Reviewers Say
[Williams'] death infuses the book, already plenty moving, already plenty searing, with an extra measure of 'what might have been' and 'Mike, we hardly knew you' poignancy.
Poignant, vivid.
Immensely inspiring and candid.
Much of this memoir hits all the more poignantly with his death.
