@article{737727, recid = {737727}, author = {Saul, Scott,}, title = {Becoming Richard Pryor /}, pages = {xvi, 586 pages :}, abstract = {"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 Drawing upon a mountain of original research--interviews with family and friends, court transcripts, unpublished journals, screenplay drafts--Scott Saul traces Pryor's rough journey to the heights of fame: from his heartbreaking childhood, his trials in the Army, and his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 Village to his soul-searching interlude in Berkeley and his ascent in the New Hollywood of the 1970s"--Amazon.com.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/737727}, }