"Cicely Tyson Finally Coming Out With Her Biography"

  I happened to find out today that FINALLY, at age 88?? 96?? (WHATEVER age she is), Cicely Tyson is FINALLY coming out with her first-ever biography early next year!!  And I can't help wondering if  I INSPIRED that.  Yes, you heard me right!! I think I might have inspired that. You see, after almost ten years of personal interactions with her at her School here in Jersey, I wrote and self-published the book below (in 2012) and sent the intensely-private actress a copy which I can prove she received...

MY BOOK, "THE IRREPRESSIBLE CICELY TYSON" (above) WAS THE FIRST BOOK ABOUT HER LIFE AND CAREER EVER WRITTEN. Her response to it was somewhat cold (all of a sudden) and NEGATIVE, but I never found out why, as we moved 70 miles away from her School (as opposed to only FOUR miles away) and I haven't traveled back to her School SINCE then. However, out of respect for her, I stopped promoting the book, and it is presently O.O.P.

As of 2018, since finding out that Ms. Tyson lied about her age 7 times, in my presence, to students at her School, I've been GLAD I never went ahead with pushing the book. What I wrote concluded that she's a woman of sterling Christian character but repeated lying is NOT the mark of someone who is saved. Here's my blog from almost two years ago, read for yourself regarding why she fell out of favor with me....

http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/2018/11/thank-god-for-things-he-didnt-give-you.html

.....But maybe my purpose in God's Plan was just to motivate HER to finally write HER story??  After all, if you don't like the version others come up with, tell YOUR side of things, tell YOUR story. And I must admit, the title of her book, "Just As I Am," is the title of one of my VERY favorite hymns.  I'm hopeful that her Bio will be a truthful piece which brings glory to GOD, based on that title!!  My book ABOUT her concluded that she is, indeed, a Christian woman of eminent integrity. Yes, I will, indeed get a copy of the book when it debuts, and read it "greedily," and I hope she explains why she lied (if there IS an explanation, which I doubt.) I'm also interested to see if the Covid-19 Lockdown this Spring was what gave her time from her traveling and appearances to sit down and finally...finally WRITE the book. There are four other puzzling issues about her life and career  that I hope she finally addresses, but I won't list them here.

Tyson writing her own tome encourages me for ANOTHER reason.  My Deana Carter book (ANOTHER unauthorized Bio) is now on Amazon and once again, it's the FIRST book about the Country singer ever written by anyone.  (I like LEADING a crowd, not FOLLOWING....what can I say??)

I'll be sending DEANA a hard copy of it and maybe SHE won't like it, either...in which case, I will take THAT down (after asking her to at least autograph a copy for ME)  and hopefully she'll eventually write HER book (that's very likely, as Deana's not nearly as secretive as Tyson is.)

Can't figure out why the PAPERBACK version of the Tyson book costs more than the HARDCOVER, though.......!! Hmmmmmmmmmm, they still have over four months to change their minds about that.......

Anyway, as of next January, Lord Willing, there will be TWO Bios of Cicely Tyson and ONLY two. The one I wrote in 2012, and the one SHE is releasing, in January 2021. Hers is the only one for sale.