We’ve just received word that a memoir by Paul Newman will release later this year. In 1986, Newman embarked on an ambitious project that lasted five years and the result is this new memoir, titled ‘The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man’, culled from thousands of pages of material assembled by Newman’s family.
We have the full description below.
The book is insightful, revealing, surprising. Newman’s voice is powerful: sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always, above all else, truthful. The additional voices that run throughout—from childhood friends and Navy buddies, from family members and theatre collaborators, from Hollywood stars and famous directors who worked with Newman — all add richness and colour and context to the story Newman tells.?
Paul Newman wrote: ‘This book came out of the struggle to try and explain it all to my kids. I want to leave some kind of record that sets things straight, pokes holes in the mythology that’s sprung up around me, destroys some of the legends, and keeps the piranhas off. Something that documents the time I was on this planet with some kind of accuracy. Because what exists on the record now has no bearing at all on the truth. That’s all I really want to do.’
The book will be published on 27th October, and also, a major 6-part documentary has just been announced about Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward, which explores their love story and their most famous roles. The documentary is directed by Hollywood actor Ethan Hawke and executively produced by Martin Scorsese. That project will hit HBO Max stateside later this month.
