Michael J. Fox will revisit two of his most iconic roles in a new memoir.
Flatiron will publish the actor’s Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum, co-written with Nelle Fortenberry, in the fall, the press announced in a news release. It calls the book “a vividly drawn and eye-opening story of creative achievement by a beloved icon.”
Fox had roles in the films Midnight Madness and Class of 1984 and appearances on the series Lou Grant and Trapper John, M.D., before being cast as Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties in 1982. He would go on to win three Emmys for his performance on the series, which ran until 1989.
At the same time as he was filming a season of the show, he was cast as Marty McFly, the lead role in Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis’ science-fiction/comedy film, which was a blockbuster hit upon its release in 1985.
“Sitcom during the day, movie at night—day after day, for months,” Flatiron says. “Fox’s nightly commute from a soundstage at Paramount to the back lot at Universal Studios, from one dream job to another, would become his own space-time continuum. It was in this time portal that Alex P. Keaton handed the baton to Marty McFly while Michael J. Fox tried to catch a few minutes of sleep.”
Fox is the author of four previous books, including, most recently, No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, which a critic for Kirkus called “a heartfelt, unselfish book about never giving up that should serve as good motivational material for readers.”
Future Boy is slated for publication on Oct. 14.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
