Purchase

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Books-A-Million

Indie BookShop

Ripped Bodice

Add to Wish List

Also by Valerie Harper:

I, Rhoda, January 2013
Hardcover

I, RHODA
By: Valerie Harper

Gallery Books
January 2013
On Sale: January 15, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 1451699468
EAN: 9781451699463
Hardcover
Add to Wish List

Non-Fiction Memoir

As Mary Richards’s lovable and self-deprecating best friend Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie Harper, too, turned the world on with her smile. Viewers could relate to Rhoda, native New Yorker and struggling working girl, who was unlucky in love and insecure about her weight but who always kept her sense of humor.

Valerie was an unknown actress when she won the part that made her famous, and by the time Rhoda, her popular spin-off show, ended, she had won four Emmys and a Golden Globe. The role was groundbreaking. On-screen, she represented a self-reliant new identity for women of the 1970s while off-screen she fought alongside feminists Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug for equal rights, among other issues that were important to her.

Valerie’s showbiz journey has taken her from Broadway, where she performed as a dancer and eventually found herself onstage with Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason, to Hollywood, where she went down in history as one of television’s best-loved characters, and back to the Great White Way, where she recently won a Tony Award nomination for her critically acclaimed role as Tallulah Bankhead. Her inspiring story is laced with triumphs and a few transformative obstacles along the way, but she remains upbeat and funny throughout, always confident that no matter what, she’s going to make it after all.

Media Buzz

Access Hollywood - September 19, 2013
Today - September 19, 2013
Extra - September 17, 2013
Katie - September 13, 2013
Access Hollywood - September 9, 2013
Access Hollywood - August 31, 2013
Access Hollywood - July 27, 2013
Access Hollywood - July 2, 2013
The Talk - April 15, 2013
Access Hollywood - April 5, 2013
Access Hollywood - April 4, 2013
Access Hollywood - April 3, 2013
Access Hollywood - April 2, 2013
Access Hollywood - March 12, 2013
Today - March 12, 2013
Good Morning America - March 12, 2013
Today - March 11, 2013
CBS This Morning - March 11, 2013
CBS Sunday Morning - March 10, 2013
Extra - March 6, 2013
Good Morning America - January 21, 2013