Research Catalog

Title

Just as I am : a memoir / Cicely Tyson ; with Michelle Burford ; foreword by Viola Davis.

Author

Tyson, Cicely

Publication

• New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burford, Michelle
• Davis, Viola, 1965-

Description

xvi, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the acress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and a mother, a sister and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by his hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say." --

Subjects

• Actors
• Black author
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• United States
• Tyson, Cicely
• African American women > Biography
• African American actors > Biography
• Actors > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

A mighty seed / Viola Davis -- This life -- The vow -- String bean -- Church girl -- Transitions -- The other America -- Unspoken -- Ground shifts -- Divinely guided -- Shoulder taps -- Center stage -- Riverside Park -- Going natural -- 1968 -- Rebecca -- Jane Pittman -- Endings and beginnings -- The ladder -- Roots -- Thanksgiving Day -- Threadbare -- Lesson before dying -- A strong harvest -- Trip to bountiful -- When great trees fall -- Just as I am.

Call Number

Sc E 21-609

ISBN

• 9780062931061
• 0062931067

LCCN

2020951686

OCLC

1230502793

Author

Tyson, Cicely, author.

Title

Just as I am : a memoir / Cicely Tyson ; with Michelle Burford ; foreword by Viola Davis.

Publisher

New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Tyson: Occupation/field of activity group: Actors

Tyson: Ethnic/cultural group: African Americans

Tyson: Gender group: Women

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Burford, Michelle, author.

Davis, Viola, 1965- writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-609