James Frey

James Frey (1969) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He spent most of childhood in Ohio and Michigan. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Million Little Pieces, a memoir of his six-weeks in a drug and alcohol rehabilitaion center.

Biography

Frey graduated from high school in 1988, and attended college at Denison University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1993, he was self-comitted to the Hazelden Foundation for the treatment of cocaine addiction and alcoholism, where he stayed for three months. He moved back to Chicago in 1994, where he worked a variety of jobs - doorman, stock boy and member of a janitorial crew. In 1996, he moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a screenwriter, director and producer. He now lives in New York with his wife, daughter and two dogs.

A Million Little Pieces

Frey started writing A Million Little Pieces in the Spring of 1996 after a friend of his had was killed in a dispute over drugs outside of a crackhouse in Minneapolis. He wrote a fifty-page maunscript as a response to his stress over the news. Four years later, after taking a second mortgage on his house and saving enough money so that he would not have to work for at least twelve months, he wrote out the rest of his memoir.

A Million Little Pieces was published in May of 2003 and became a New York Times Best Seller, a #1 National Bestseller and an International Bestseller. In 2004, he wrote My Friend Leonard, which is a sequel to A Million Little Pieces. In June of 2005, My Friend Leonard became a New York Times and International Bestseller.

In September 2005, Oprah Winfrey chose A Million Little Pieces for her monthy bookclub.

External links

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0307276902/102-5931115-8051364?v=glance http://www2.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/mlp/author/author_bio_02.jhtml