Finding Me
By Viola Davis
- Genre
- Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
- Publisher
- HarperOne (HarperCollins)
- Publication year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9780063037328
Finding Me is a memoir by the actor and producer Viola Davis, published by HarperOne in April 2022. It recounts her impoverished childhood in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and her rise to acclaim on stage and screen. A #1 New York Times bestseller, its audiobook won a 2023 Grammy and the Audie...
Viola Davis has spent a career playing women of overwhelming interior strength, and Finding Me reveals where that force was forged. Raised in deep poverty in Central Falls, Rhode Island, Davis writes unflinchingly about hunger, violence and shame, and about the acting that offered a way through. The memoir is less a showbiz chronicle than a reckoning with self-worth - how a girl learns she is worthy of the life she wants. intendle recommends it for its raw honesty and its refusal to tidy trauma into inspiration; Davis lets the ugliness stand so the triumph can mean something. The audiobook, read by Davis herself, won both the Grammy and the Audie Audiobook of the Year, and the book was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Fierce, vulnerable and hard-earned, it is the rare celebrity memoir that reads like literature rather than publicity.