Michael has won numerous awards, including four Golden Globes, four Emmy awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, GQ Man of the Year, and the People's Choice Award. In the summer of 2001 he was the lead voice in Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Since then his career has been a nonstop success story, with blockbuster movies like Back to the Future, The Secret of My Success, Doc Hollywood and most recently as the lead voice in the animated film Stuart Little.

Keaton, the star of the popular sitcom Family Ties.

Fox began his career as the lovable Alex P.

He talks about what Parkinson's has given him - the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career and the opportunity to help search for a cure and spread public awareness of the disease. Most important, however, he writes of the last 10 years during which - with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends - he has dealt with his illness. Now, with the same passion, humor, and energy that Fox has invested in his dozens of performances over the last 18 years, he tells the story of his life, his career and his campaign to find a cure for Parkinson's.Ĭombining his trademark ironic sensibility and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life - from his childhood in a small town in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Fortunately, he had accepted the diagnosis and by the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself. The worldwide response was staggering, particularly to him. In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease - a degenerative neurological condition. With the same energy, passion and humour he invests in his performances, Fox recounts the incredible story of his life-changing experiences - and what Parkinson's has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, his family, and the opportunity to help find a cure.In September 1998, Michael J. By the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself.įar from being bitter about being forced into retirement at the height of his career, he considers himself a lucky man. Fox announced to the world that he had Parkinson's disease, a degenerative neurological condition, he had been secretly fighting it for almost ten years. 'The ten years since my diagnosis have been the best ten years of my life and I consider myself a lucky man' - Michael J. A funny, warm and moving account of his battle with Parkinson’s disease by the internationally beloved star of Spin City, Family Ties and Back to the Future.

Lucky man a memoir by michael j fox