Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

Apr 2022 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Viola Davis

About this audiobook

Winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording!

Audie Award Winner for Audiobook of the Year!

Narrated by Viola Davis

In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever.

This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.

As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. We are forced to reinvent them to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone running through life untethered, desperate and clawing their way through murky memories, trying to get to some form of self-love. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you.

Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.

Ratings and reviews

A survivor's tale of finding joy despite experiencing unrelenting torment, loving and forgiving the people who inflicted that torture, transforming the trauma, and standing unashamed in Truth. A+ book.

Dit boek haar leven wat een prachtige tragedie! Wat heeft miss Davis dit mooi verteld. In haar woorden vol vuur, pijn en passie! gewoon perfect geschreven!

When I was young I always had this doubt about me, I didn't know who I am and because of that I was bullied even familiars. It's so comfortable and peaceful that not I'm not the only one feeling that way. I haven't read this book yet but I have a feeling that it'll be great elsemore hear advices and biography.

About the author

VIOLA DAVIS is an internationally acclaimed actress and producer, known for her exceptional performances in television shows like 'How to Get Away with Murder' and movies like 'Fences' and 'The Help.' She is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, and in 2021 she won a Screen Actors Guild award for her role in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'. In both 2012 and 2017, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Davis is also the founder and CEO of JuVee Productions, an artist driven production company that develops and produces independent film, theater, television, and digital content.