Grace After Midnight: A Memoir

Grace After Midnight: A Memoir

by David Ritz (Author), David Ritz (Author), Felicia "snoop" Pearson (Author)

Synopsis

While Felicia Pearson is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what's most remarkable about 'Snoop' is what she has overcome in real life. Born a three-pound, cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore and raised in a foster home, Snoop proved she was as tough as the streets. Showing an early aptitude for drug slinging and violence, she thrived as a baby gangsta until she landed in Jessup State Penitentiary after killing a woman in self-defence. There she rebelled violently against the system and it would take the news of the murder of her childhood mentor, a local drug-dealer called Uncle Loney, for her to decide to turn her life around. Then, after being discovered in a nightclub by one of The Wire's cast members and recruited to the show, fiction began tio mirror life as 'snoop, drawing on the tribulations of her past, created one of television's most frightening and intriguing villains

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 06 Dec 2007

ISBN 10: 0446195189
ISBN 13: 9780446195188

Media Reviews
A powerful story of someone trying to find her way in a dark world, realizing she can still choose her life's direction even in tremendously difficult circumstances. Pearson's narrative is spare, even poetic, rendering traumatic moments all the more powerful * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
Author Bio
David Ritz is the author of Tavis Smiley's bestselling memoir, What I Know for Sure. He has collaborated with Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, BB King and Laila Ali amongst many others