Finding Home
A Memoir
Published on 4. November 2025
235 pages
978-1-57284-902-0 (ISBN)
Description
- FASCINATING BACKGROUND: Author shares details about her career in the television and film industry (including her long run on Room 222) to her personal life (such as her rocky marriage to Bill Withers and the mysterious murder of her sister), and her career transition to focus on writing.
- POPULAR CATEGORY: This book will appeal to readers with an interest in celebrity memoirs, especially those that shed light on the expectations of being a woman, and a person of color, in the entertainment industry.
- SPOTLIGHT ON CIVIL RIGHTS: Author recounts her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement while a member of the Free Southern Theater. Her firsthand account of her experience in the 1960s is both significant and timely, especially in today's ongoing conversations about racial equity and justice, and sheds light on the stories recounted in her acclaimed fiction.
- CELEBRATED PREVIOUS WORK: Author's novel Freshwater Road received rave reviews and won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award for debut fiction and the American Library Association's Black Caucus Award for debut fiction in 2006.
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Person
Denise Nicholas is a writer and actress who has starred in numerous films and TV shows over the past 55 years, including Room 222, for which she earned three Golden Globe nominations, and In the Heat of the Night, for which she also wrote several episodes. She is the author of Freshwater Road (Agate Bolden, 2005). She lives in Los Angeles.
