The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption
Rodney Glen King is known for being the victim in a notorious police brutality case with the Los Angeles Police Department on March 3, 1991. King was born in Sacramento, California, to Odessa King. His father, Ronald King, an alcoholic, died at age forty-two. King grew up in Pasadena, California. In 2008, King was a cast member on VH1's second season ofCelebrity Rehab, a popular TV show hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky that seeks to help celebrities become clean and sober.Lawrence J. Spagnola is the coauthor of theNew York TimesbestsellingMy Appetite for Destructionby Steven Adler; and Christopher Award-winning writer of the Emmy-winning, Golden Globe-nominated television movieThe Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler. He is a Harvard graduate and a Rockefeller Fellow.