PhotoSome viewers best remember Sally Field as a buoyant, beachcombing teenager and an airborne sister of the cloth. To others, she is a pioneering factory worker and an uncompromising farm owner, and to still others, she is Mary Todd Lincoln and Forrest Gump’s beloved mama. Now, Ms. Field will tell her own story in her own words, in a memoir that will be published next year. Grand Central Publishing said on Wednesday that it had acquired Ms. Field’s memoir, which is titled “In Pieces,” and which chronicles her life and career. After getting her start in the TV shows “Gidget” and “The Flying Nun,” Ms. Field went on to win Academy Awards for her performances in “Norma Rae” and “Places in the Heart,” and to appear in other popular films including “Steel Magnolias,” “Mrs.

Source: New York Times December 06, 2017 16:21 UTC