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Authors: Sissy Spacek,Maryanne Vollers

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Thanks to those who believed in me when it mattered:

Rip Torn, Geraldine Page, Bill Treusch, Rick Nicita, and Marion Dougherty.

Thanks to all my family, in this world and the next.

And thanks to a lifetime of four-legged friends.

Above all, thanks to Mother and Daddy, Robbie and Ed, and Schuyler, Madison, and Jack, who helped make this extraordinary, ordinary life possible.

Credits

 

Illustrations

All illustrations by Jack Fisk, except as follows:

Sissy Spacek: box radio (chapter 5); Jack (chapter 10); sailor dress (chapter 11); and Patch (chapter 16)

Virginia Madison Fisk: Cassidy (chapter 16)

Photo Section I

All photographs: Spacek Family Collection

Photo Section II

Photo 2
(upper left)
: Photo by Sam Emerson / Feb. 2009

Photo 3
(upper center)
:3 WOMEN © 1977 Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved.

Photo 5
(middle left)
: Courtesy of Miramax

Photo 6
(middle center)
: HEART BEAT © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Photo 7
(middle right)
: Courtesy of Dream Works II Distribution Co., LLC

Photo 8
(lower left)
: Courtesy of MGM Media Licensing. CARRIE © 1976 METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Photo 9
(lower center)
: Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC All Rights Reserved.

Photo 10
(lower right)
: BADLANDS © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Photo 11: Michael Ochs Archives/Moviepix/Getty Images

Photo 12: Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC All Rights Reserved.

Photo 13: Photograph from “The Good Old Boys” provided by TNT Originals, Inc.

Photo 16: Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC All Rights Reserved.

Photo 17: Courtesy of MGM Media Licensing. CARRIE © 1976 METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Photo 18: Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Photo 19: Associated Press

Photo 20: HEART BEAT © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Photo 21: Courtesy of Jean Pagliuso

Photo 22: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 23: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 24: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 25: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 26: Courtesy of Douglas Randall

Photo 27 : Spacek Family Collection

Photo 28: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 29: Courtesy of Joseph Burchfield

Photo 30: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 31: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 32: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 33: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 34 : Courtesy of The Riker Brothers

Photo 35: Brian Killian/Getty Images

Photo 36: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 37: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 38: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 39: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 40: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 41: Courtesy of Aldo Filiberto

Photo 42: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 43: Courtesy of Sue Kramer

Photo 44: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 45: Courtesy of The Riker Brothers

Photo 46: Spacek Family Collection

Photo 47: Courtesy of Lynne Brubaker

Photo 48: Spacek Family Collection

For all photographs not credited, every effort has been made to trace and contact copyright holders. The publishers will be pleased to correct any mistakes or omissions in future editions.

Copyright

 

With thanks to Terrence Malick and Edward R. Pressman for permission to reprint lines from
Badlands
, © 1973 Edward R. Pressman Productions, Inc.

Illustration and photo credits, in “Credits” section, constitute a continuation of this copyright page.

Copyright © 2012 Sissy Spacek

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information address Hyperion, 114 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011

The Library of Congress has catalogued the original print edition of this book as follows:

Spacek, Sissy.

My extraordinary ordinary life / Sissy Spacek with Maryanne Vollers. — 1st ed.

 

p. cm.

 

ISBN 978-1-4013-2436-0

 

1. Spacek, Sissy. 2. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. I. Vollers, Maryanne. II. Title.

 

PN2287.S663A3 2012

 

791.4302"8092—dc23

 

[B]

 

                                2011047858

 

eBook Edition ISBN: 978-1-4013-0427-0

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Cover photograph © Lynne Brubaker

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Prologue

TEXAS

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

NEW YORK

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

PHOTO SECTION I

PHOTO SECTION II

CALIFORNIA

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

VIRGINIA

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

Acknowledgments

Credits

Copyright

Table of Contents

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