Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies.
In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career.
Chapter 1: 410 East Washington
Chapter 6: Dan-Dan the Yo-Yo Man
Chapter 8: Car, Table, Counter, or TakHomaSak
Chapter 15: My Trip To Hollywood
Chapter 17: London Perambulating
Chapter 19: All by Myself Alone
Chapter 25: Leisure of the Theory Class
Chapter 27: Books Do Furnish a Room
Chapter 33: “Irving! Brang ’em on!”
Chapter 36: “Fiddle on the corner where the quarters are”
Chapter 37: “I wasn’t popular when people thought I was popular”
Chapter 40: The Sweetest Set of Wheels in Town
Chapter 44: When I Laughed in Study Hall
Chapter 47: Good News and Bad News
Chapter 50: Putting a New Face on Things
Chapter 51: High School Reunion
Chapter 54: How I Believe in God