Foxy: My Life in Three Acts »

Pam Grier started her career in the early 1970s, starring in a string of moderately successful women-in-prison films and blaxploitation films, and has generally remained in the public eye, starring in movies such as Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Jackie Brown.

In this sexy, often shocking, memoir, you will get to know the real Pam Grier in all her battles and triumphs, her disappointments and her victories.

This book is broken down into Three Parts: The Early Years, 'Fros and Freaks, and Finding the Balance.

Chapters include:

• Chapter One: ARMY BRAT
• Chapter Two: MEETING MONSTERS
• Chapter Three: ANIMALS OVER PEOPLE
• Chapter Four: THE SUMMER OF FAILED LOVE
• Chapter Five: MOVING TO THE PULSE
• Chapter Six: LEW AND ALLAH
• Chapter Seven: BLAXPLOITATION BREAKOUT
• Chapter Eight: THREE STRIKES AND I'M OUTTA THERE!
• Chapter Nine: TRIAL BY LOSS
• Chapter Ten: FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE
• Chapter Eleven: NO MAN'S LAND
• Chapter Twelve: GOING BROWN: FROM FOXY TO JACKIE
• Chapter Thirteen: THE L WORD
• Chapter Fourteen: HEALING AND HORSE SENSE

Publishers Weekly

In this prickly autobiography, the iconic actress is almost as hard-nosed toward lovers as her filmic alter -ego was toward enemies. Grier recalls a flamboyant career, from B-movie starlet in Women in Cages through blaxploitation diva in Foxy Brown to Tarantino muse in Jackie Brown, all of it shaped by a rigorous Stanislavskian method. (Her self-transformation into a strung-out killer prostitute for an audition almost got her arrested by the NYPD.) Grier nods to the feminist and black power movements that inspired her screen persona as a glamorous badass shotgunning a white and/or male power structure—Hollywood's answer to Angela Davis—while distancing herself from the myth: deep down she's a Colorado farm girl, scarred by two rapes, who loves horses. But there's a resemblance to her onscreen persona in her tough, wary attitude toward domineering boyfriends like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who futilely tried to convert her into a submissive Muslim wife, and comedian Freddie Prinze, whose suicide garners less space and pathos than does the death of her dog. “What harm would it do to say yes and keep on watching his behavior?” she strategizes when a suitor presents an engagement ring. (Apr. 28)