Scenes from My Life: A Memoir

"It seemed an impossible task: finishing the deeply personal memoir of groundbreaking actor Michael K. Williams months after his death from a drug overdose. But co-author Jon Sternfeld artfully completed the searingly honest story of how Williams survived a childhood filled with trauma in a Brooklyn housing project to become one of Hollywood’s most impactful actors. Known for playing tough characters who subvert traditional ideals of Black masculinity – including his breakout role as The Wire’s gay robber of drug dealers, Omar Little – Williams was the opposite of a tough guy in his neighborhood. “Way before I was anything or anyone, I was an addict,” Williams writes in the book’s introduction, previewing a hopeful tone on overcoming his addictions that lends more poignancy for readers, who already know how his story ends."