The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recording, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertain-ment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in the history of popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy forty-six times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Fumy Girl (musical and film) to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an ac-tress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl.