![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The position of film critic fell into his lap at the Sun-Times%E2%80%94a paper he joined after leaving a graduate English program%E2%80%94and Ebert hasn't looked back. Drawn to newspapers beginning in high school, he became the sports reporter for his school paper before rising to the rank of co-editor. Born in Urbana, Ill., in 1942, Ebert spent a carefree childhood, often with his nose in a book. Forgoing a traditional linear format, each chapter%E2%80%94particularly "My Old Man%E2%80%9D and "Big John Wayne%E2%80%9D%E2%80%94could function as a stand-alone essay. Though three thyroid cancer surgeries resulting in the removal of his lower jaw have left Ebert unable to speak, eat, or drink, these are not famous last words. It's hardly surprising that Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, begins this candid examination of an extraordinary life with an allusion to Ingmar Bergman's Persona, about an actress who loses her voice in mid-performance. ![]()
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