This newly released mini biography gives you an amazing look into the author's life from his cruel early childhood days to his exciting arrival in New York City.
His mother died in a hospital from an ingrown goiter when he was two months of becoming two years old.
His grandmother then takes him along with his younger brother to her hometown of Blytheville, Arkansas where she would raise them.
He then shares how his early life in the south along with
grandmother Eva's constant beatings and whippings until the blood ran,
tied with rope to her iron beds, came to scare and affect him so deeply
mentally, physically, and spiritually later in life.
He eventually discovers that smiling would become one of
the great medicines of his life as a powerful future would continue to
unfold.