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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
By Henry, David & Joe Henry
- ISBN
- 9781616200787
- Publisher
- Algonquin
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Reviewed on September 1, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
The latest biography of "the world's most brilliant stand-up comedian" is the culmination of a project that took more than a decade (originally intended as a three-act screenplay) by screenwriter Henry and his brother, musician Joe. Born in 1940 in Peoria, IL, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III was raised by his grandmother, who ran a brothel in which his mother "also turned tricks." Raped at five by a teenage bully (wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
