Scott Saul
Scott Saul is the author of Becoming Richard Pryor and the editor of its digital companion, which curates more than 200 documents related to Pryor's formative years growing up in Peoria. He has written on American culture and politics for the New York Times, Harper's, the Nation, and other publications
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Pimp's Progress: How Richard Pryor Made <i>The Mack </i>His Own
Excerpted from Scott Saul's new biography, Becoming Richard Pryor. Quick setup: When Pryor started collaborating on the screenplay to The Mack—the 1973 film that brought the figure of the pimp to mainstream America—he was at an uncertain crossroads in his career. In the mid-1960s, he had become a ...