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Scott Saul

Biography

Scott Saul

Scott Saul is an associate professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley. His writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, the New York Times and the Nation, among other publications. He is the author of FREEDOM IS, FREEDOM AIN'T: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Scott Saul

Books by Scott Saul

by Scott Saul - Biography, Entertainment, Nonfiction

Drawing upon a mountain of original research --- interviews with family and friends, court transcripts, unpublished journals and screenplay drafts --- Scott Saul traces Richard Pryor’s rough journey to the heights of fame: from his heartbreaking childhood, his trials in the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.