In Film
A documentary about Young’s life, Someday You, was released in 2012. The film moves back and forth between the present day and extensive archival footage shot in 1987, when Young was a graduate student in the creative writing program at the University of California, Davis. The 1987 footage was shot with one of the first digital cameras ever made commercially available.
In the film, Young and various people who have known him over the years discuss his getting sober at Davis; his remaining sober for over a quarter century; the sacrifices he made as a young man to establish a writing career; the publication of his first novel, One of the Guys, to controversy in 1999; the unexpectedly difficult adjustments that success as a writer entail; and, most extensively, his withdrawal from the outside world, at the age of 47, in order to provide life-giving care to both of his infirm, elderly parents, in their home.
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