died in September 2008 at the age of 83 due to cancer. The writings will be based on hours of audio featuring Newman speaking as well as interviews with friends and family. “What he recorded, and in essence what he wrote, was so honest and revealing,” Peter Gethers, an editor-at-large at Knopf, told the New York Times. “It showed this extraordinary arc, a guy who was very, very flawed at the beginning of his life and as a young man, but who, as he got older, turned into the Paul Newman we want him to be.”“He does not shy away from his demons, and the actor’s candor, is, by turns, stunning, smart, funny, self-critical, and tender,” Gethers said.“He said that his mother did not so much think of him as flesh and blood, but as a decoration,”.
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