![]() This experience proved very traumatic for the young Rosetta who just wanted to be loved by her parents, especially her mom. At a very young age, her parents sent her off to a sanitarium with her older sister Sherrye. The book reads chronologically from the very beginning of her life as Rosetta Jacobs and continues on to her movie and acting career as Piper Laurie. I think it's a wonder she became a movie star! It took her years just to be able to laugh out loud and speak up for herself. It was less shyness and more just an innate instinct to be quiet and listen. The title "Learning to Live Out Loud" stems from the actress' problems with being able to vocalize. Piper Laurie is not having a conversation with her readers, she doesn't even acknowledge them, she's just telling the story of her life and all the people who happened to be a part of it. This is much different than the conversational style of Ernest Borgnine's autobiography. Film actress Piper Laurie wrote this autobiography in a storytelling style. The autobiographer presents his or her story with a layer of nostalgia and a sense of pain that is the result of drudging up the past in a way that no biographer can. ![]() ![]() Any good biographer can dig up the facts on an important figure but they cannot present those facts with personal context. ![]() It's a given that reading an autobiography is a much different experience than reading a biography. "I had achieved my childhood dream of becoming a movie star and then left it all behind for a second career as a serious actor." - Piper Laurie ![]()
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