Best known for her role as Annie Hall in Woody Allen′s film of the same name, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, Keaton has had a fascinating and highly successful career, with roles in ′The Godfather′, ′Reds′, ′Father of the Bride′, ′Something′s Gotta Give′ and many more. Personally Keaton has had relationships with Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, and Al Pacino - all of whom she remains in touch with today and who she will speak about in the book.
Diane Keaton′s mother suffered from Alzheimer′s, and during the fifteen year long battle with this heartbreaking and debilitating disease, Diane began to reflect on both of their lives - their similarities and their differences, the dreams they each realised and the dreams they deferred. Soon after her mother passed away last September, Diane started to write. The result is a memoir that is as touching, funny, and iconic as its author; an illumination of an ordinary girl′s journey to become an extraordinary woman - and the defining relationship that made it all possible. Diane Keaton′s Academy Award-winning career, both in front of and behind the camera, has made her a cinema legend and touchstone for a generation.
About the Author
Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable movies of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club, and Something's Gotta Give. Her many awards include the Golden Globe and the Academy Award. Keaton lives with her daughter and son in Los Angeles.
Industry Reviews
"For anyone looking to join one woman's--albeit a famous woman's--touching and funny journey into the vortex that is the parent-child relationship, Then Again features an especially honest tour guide."--USA Today
"[A] rich and ruminative autobiographical journey."--The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
"Although peek-behind-the-curtain moments are delicious--Woody Allen! Warren Beatty! Jack Nicholson! . . . this is a [memoir] about a mother and a daughter, with insights and confessions and lessons to which all readers can relate."--The Wall Street Journal
"Both heartbreaking and joyful, [Then Again] covers the gamut of life experiences facing all women."--Chicago Sun-Times
"A poem about women living in one another's not uncomplicated memories. . . . Part of what makes Diane Keaton's memoir, Then Again, truly amazing is that she does away with the star's 'me' and replaces it with a daughter's 'I.' "--Hilton Als, The New Yorker
"This book feels like Diane Keaton. Which means it's lovable."--Entertainment Weekly
"As warm, funny, and self-deprecating as Keaton's onscreen persona--[Then Again] traces a profound dramatic arc: that of a young woman coming into her own as an artist, and of a daughter becoming a mother."--Vogue
"Then Again reads like the diary of an ordinary woman who suddenly became a movie star, who doesn't quite believe any of it happened, but it did."--Los Angeles Times