![]() ![]() "I am identified in at least two specific roles," the elder Nimoy wrote. In 1975, Nimoy's father, Leonard, then 44, published his own book about the fight for identity titled "I Am Not Spock." Not necessarily finding himself - that obnoxious baby-boomer phrase - but asserting his identity, separate from his father, from the marriage, from drugs. ![]() ![]() Writing the book was a way to pull himself out of the depressing hole his life had become. Nimoy wanted to write about his recovery from 30 years of addiction to marijuana and alcohol, about the crash and burn of his 18-year marriage, about raising two teenage children and, yes, about finding someone to love. Agents wanted the dirt on growing up with "Star Trek" television actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Mr. But that's what people want to hear."įrom his first meeting with a prospective agent, Nimoy had to hold on tight to the book he wanted to write. that never happened to you!" Nimoy's mother protested. "Like when you and Dad were out of town on some 'Star Trek' press junket and I was strung out on the floor of that men's room downtown. ![]() "I'm going to write about the dark times," Adam Nimoy explained to his mother when he began working on "My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life," which he calls "an anti-memoir." ![]()
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