Kate Mulgrew - Born with teeth: a memoir

A vivaciously lyrical memoir, revealing Mulgrew as a character more fascinating than any shes played.

Natalie Beach, O, The Oprah Magazine

Mulgrew swaggers endearingly across its pages, her able and hardy constitution ever on display as she powers through the many challengesboth personal and professionalthat life has tossed her way. Eloquent and impassioned, Born with Teeth reaches beyond the standard Hollywood memoir to something more affecting and enduring. Beautifully written. Throughout, she narrates with the grandeur of a stage diva holding court. Actresses. What a bunch of sad saps we are, she intones. Madly in love with the child. Madly in love with the craft. Trying desperately to forge an alliance with the two, and constantly failing. Mulgrew can be proud that this memoir, her defining monologue, proves otherwise.

Nora Krug, Washington Post

A powerful, beautifully written piece of work.

Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune

The story behind the actress is more dramatic than anything shes played on screen. Mulgrew pulls back the curtain on her own life with an honesty thats raw and refreshing.

National Public Radio

Resistance is futile. You will fall in love with this wonderful memoir. You will read it, as I did, all in one sitting. You will press it into the hands of friends, saying, You must read this now. You already know Kate Mulgrew as an actress of fierce intelligence and blinding charisma. Born with Teeth is exactly what you might expect and more: the story of Mulgrews brilliant and unconventional life, told with elegance and humor, and underpinned by that same intelligence that underpins each and every one of her performances.

Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

Mulgrew has a big story to tellseveral stories, actuallyand she tells it with a straightforward lyricism that made me think immediately of Patti Smiths Just Kids and Frank McCourts Angelas Ashes. Its that good.

Joanna Connors, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Stunningly candid about everything from the search for her daughter to aging in Hollywood, the actress. brings it all in her arresting new memoir.

Mary Green, People

Gorgeous. Deeply personal, and shockingly revealing.

Kevin Fallon, Daily Beast

I was blindsided by the fierce intensity, intelligence, and grace of this memoir. Born with Teeth is gorgeously written, breathtakingly honest, and impossible to put down.

Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors

The perfectly titled Born with Teeth is a moving, artful memoir. Kate Mulgrew is a fierce and brilliant talent, both on the stage and on the page, and Im filled with admiration for this wonderful book.

Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy

It seems unfair that such a talented actress is also such a talented writer.

Gwen Ihnat, The Onion A.V. Club

Candid, jaunty and written with a marvelous flair for anecdote and detail.

Joe McGovern, Entertainment Weekly

Mulgrews voice is engaging and funny. Reading about her life, which contains real trauma as well as success, is like being told stories by a good friend over drinks. She takes you behind the scenes onstage and off, and its a fascinating journey.

Jenn Northington, Book Riot

From the start, Mulgrews voice jumps off the page, her prose bold, informal, and at times effervescent as she cracks open her eccentric and ebullient world. Born with Teeth jumps spectacularly from tale to trial, each approached with abandon and honesty. Reading it feels like joining a friend on a spontaneous adventure that extends to another day, another party, another trip, leaving you breathless and unable to do anything but follow.

Christine Thomas, Miami Herald

In this superb and beautifully written memoir of life, love, and laughter interspersed with devastating crashes into darkness, Mulgrew keeps us looking for the rainbow. Honest, gritty, and hilarious, Born with Teeth leaves us thinking how nice it would be to call Kate Mulgrew a friend.

Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming

Born with Teeth goes far deeper than the everyday life and struggles of an emerging actress. Throughout, Mulgrew is brazenly honest. She is a woman filled with passion. She falls in and out of love, she makes mistakes, she goes after what she wants and builds her career, and if that makes her controversial, then so be it. She reveals this all without shame, and while her tone may be familiar, the character behind it is a brave one.

Chelsea Langford, Kirkus Reviews

She has formidable literary skill herself, as she makes clear from the first page of her book (I defy anyone not to fall for her from the first lines).

Cahir ODoherty, Irish Voice

Mulgrews enjoyable narrative is compelling as she portrays her decades of acting work, personal triumphs and heartbreaks, and her mesmerizing life.

Sally Bryant, Library Journal

Richly descriptive and relatable, Born with Teeth will make you a fan of Mulgrew.

Marisa Spyker, Coastal Living

Engaging.

Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Tribune

Breathtakingly honest.

Viv Groskop, The Telegraph