Dustin Hoffman will tell the story of his life and career as one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed actors in a memoir coming later this year, People magazine reports.
Simon Six will publish Hoffman’s Look at Me, co-written with Ariel Levy, in the fall. The press says that the actor “proves to be an ardent, entertaining, and deeply empathic storyteller…a narrator whose company you will relish.”
Hoffman, a Los Angeles native, acted in theater before making his breakthrough in Mike Nichols’ 1967 film, The Graduate, which earned him an Oscar nomination. He would go on to be nominated for six more Academy Awards for his performances in Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie, and Wag the Dog, winning the award twice, for Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man. His other films include All the President’s Men, Hook, I Heart Huckabees, and Barney’s Version.
“Fans will finish this book feeling that they truly know Hoffman: the way his mind works; how he prepares for a part; his experience growing up in Los Angeles as a lower middle-class Jewish kid in the 1940s, then arriving in New York City full of passion in the late fifties, only to find himself crowned the ‘voice of his generation’ in Life magazine by the end of the sixties,” Simon Six says.
Hoffman said in a statement, “After 88 remarkable years, and decades of wanting to write this memoir, I’ve finally done it. I look forward to sharing it with you.”
Look at Me is scheduled for publication on Nov. 10.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
