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A major biography—intimate, gripping, revelatory—of an artist who revolutionized American comedy. 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 make stand-up comedy as exhilarating and harrowing as the life he’d known. He brought that trembling vitality to Hollywood, where his movie career— Blazing Saddles, the buddy comedies with Gene Wilder, Blue Collar —flowed directly out of his spirit of creative improvisation. The major studios considered him dangerous. Audiences felt plugged directly into the socket of life. Becoming Richard Pryor brings the man and his comic genius into focus as never before. Drawing upon a mountain of original research—interviews with family and friends, court transcripts, unpublished journals, screenplay drafts—Scott Saul traces Pryor’s rough journey to the heights of fame: from his heartbreaking childhood, his trials in the Army, and his apprentice days in Greenwich

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Author

Saul, Assistant Professor Of English Scott

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062123336

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.09 / 5 (221 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14