Becoming Richard Pryor

An intimate biography with photographs included: “The most detailed and rigorously researched work on the comic’s life and performances.” — The Washington Post Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family’s brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to the stage, originally, to escape the hard-bitten realities of his childhood, but later came to a reverberating discovery: that by plunging into the depths of his experience, he could mak