Just as the sixth ever-popular
season of The Waling Dead is ready to
premier, the first biography of the actor Norman Reedus has been published by
the innovative hybrid publishing company, Riverdale Avenue Books, written by
New York Times best-selling entertainment journalist Marc Shapiro.
“Everyone I know loves Norman
Reedus’ Daryl character,” says Publisher Lori Perkins. “And most women I know,
and some men, who gladly choose to spend the apocalypse under his alpha
protection. In this biography, readers will get to see the real man behind the
mythos.”
Although Norman Reedus has been
playing the crossbow-wielding zombie hunter for six years now, few viewers know
that he was once a very successful and sought after male model, as well as an
artist.
“He’s a very interesting
character,” said Marc Shapiro, author of the unauthorized biography, “both in
the roles he plays and in the life he’s lead.”
This book chronicles his days as a defiant young man in a fractured but
ultimately liberating family life, allegations of physical abuse from Reedus
himself, to his struggles in the Los Angeles art underground, alcohol problems
that saw him in AA and, for a time, homeless, his breakthrough in acting,
modeling and the slow, steady and never boring journey through love, fatherhood
and his often truly odd professional choices. You’ll discover why Reedus said
thanks but no thanks to an offer to play opposite a reigning superstar, how he
became Daryl Dixon and how The Walking
Dead changed his life.
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