I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir [Paperback]

“Lee Grant has lived her life and practiced her craft with reckless abandon, bravery, honesty, and ultimately brutal clarity.”—Tony Award-winner Frank Langella

Already a celebrated Broadway star andVogue“It Girl,” Lee Grant was just twenty-four when she was nominated for an Academy Award forDetective Story.A year later, her name landed on the Hollywood blacklist, destroying her career and her marriage. Grant spent twelve years fighting the Communist witch hunts and rebuilt her life on her own terms: first stop, a starring role onPeyton Place.Set amid the 1950s New York theater scene and the starstudded parties of 1970s Malibu,I Said Yes to Everythingwill delight film and theatre buffs as well as the beloved star’s myriad fans.“The elegant theater and screen actress bares all of her insecurities and regrets…But there’s also an intimacy and directness in how she shares—including numerous dishy, behind-the-glam anecdotes….Grant has lived a long, full life. While she may prefer to be coy about precisely how long it’s lasted so far,I Said Yes to Everythingserves as evidence that it’s been long enough to give her a meaty, multifaceted and compelling story to tell.”—Jen Chaney,The Washington Post

“No-holds-barred…Grant doesn’t make us read between the lines here; it’s all right there, on the page. When she was jubilant after winning an Oscar for her supporting role inShampoo, we know it; when she was disgusted, as when a television network canceled her series without telling her, we know it, too; and, of course, when she was dismayed and bewildered and depressed when she couldn’t find work during her 12-year blacklisting, we know it for sure….An excellent show-business autobiography. —Booklist, STARRED review

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