Viola Davis Memoir ‘Finding Me’ Scheduled for Next April Trilby Beresford Viola Davis Oscar winner Viola Davis is working on a memoir that she says will be “straight, no chaser.” HarperOne will release Davis’ Finding Me on April 19, 2022. Davis traces her rise from growing up in poverty and family violence in Rhode Island to becoming one of the world’s most acclaimed actors. She won an Oscar for her starring role in the 2016 film adaptation of August Wilson’s drama Fences, an Emmy for Fences and King Hedley II. “I believe that our stories, and the courage to share them, is the most powerful empathetic tool we have,” she said in a statement. “This is my story … straight no chaser.”