BEFORE
You Knew Us

Firsthand Profiles of Leaders
Becoming Themselves

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"Before anyone becomes extraordinary, they spend a long time feeling uncertain, overlooked, or unfinished. Before You Knew Us captures that universal experience beautifully."
—Guy Raz, Creator/Host How I Built This

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THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE STORIES

  • The Wisdom of Solomon

    KENNETH FEINBERG

  • RUTH BADER GINSBURG

  • CHUCK HAGEL

  • CHRISTIE HEFNER

  • NEIL deGRASSE TYSON

  • Survivor Survivor

    ETHAN ZOHN

Praise for Before You Knew Us

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Quite possibly, the absolute best book ever written, even way better than mine.

John Updike

I wish I had written a book like this; and I wish a book like this had been written for me long ago.

Papa Hemingway

I laughed. I cried. It was better than Cats.

A.L. Webber

I loved this book. When’s the next bus?

Johnny Dangerously

And all I wrote was the Declaration of Independence, at age 33.

Th. Jefferson

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  • Maya Angelou

    Before you knew her as
    MAYA ANGELOU, celebrated poet and master of words, she was little Marguerite Johnson in the segregated South, who chose silence for more than five years, finding her voice only in the comfort of reading and literature before sharing her poetry and storytelling.

  • Elie Wiesel

    Before you knew him as
    NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE ELIE WIESEL, he endured the worst atrocity in human history, unable to talk about the horrors for ten years before his epic account Night became required reading in every classroom.


  • Justice Stephen Breyer

    Before you knew him as
    SUPREME COURT JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER, he dug ditches for the gas company, worked in the kitchen at the San Francisco public camp, and served in the Army.