Terri Cheney

Over the course of her 16-year career as an attorney, Terri Cheney specialized in intellectual property and entertainment law at several prominent Los Angeles firms, all the while battling a debilitating bipolar disorder. Her New York Times bestseller, Manic: A Memoir, gives a harrowing yet hopeful insider's ... (more)account of what it is like to live and manage this disease, easily hidden in the bipolar nature of Hollywood life itself. Manic is a testament to the sharp beaut of a life lived in extremes-and survival.

DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood is pleased to welcome Terri Cheney to the store as she discusses and signs Manic: A Memoir. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, affects more than 5.7 million adult Americans every year. Manic is the poetically-crafted, ... (more)raw, and intimate story of one woman’s harrowing battle with this often misunderstood disease. Unlike memoirs such as Jane Pauley’s Skywriting and Carrie Fisher’s Postcards From the Edge, MANIC is not the story of a celebrity who also suffers from manic depression. Though her work may have brought her close to the rich and famous, Terri Cheney is a regular, everyday person who attempted to battle her illness while maintaining a job and keeping some semblance of a normal life. This makes MANIC intensely real and even more poignant. It is astonishing to think that a neighbor, friend or relative may be similarly suffering behind a relatively normal façade. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Terri Cheney specialized in intellectual property and entertainment law at several prominent Los Angeles firms, where, over the course of her 16-year career, she represented such celebrity clients as Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, as well as major motion picture studios, including Universal Studios and Columbia Pictures. She now devotes her talents to the cause of mental illness. She was named a member of the Community Advisory Board of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program, and founded a weekly community support group at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Terri Cheney - Manic - Thursday, October 9 at 7:30pm (National Bipolar Awareness Day)Please check back soon for more event information.

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In 2003, Jennifer Finney Boylan took the literary world by storm, publishing her critically acclaimed memoir She’s Not There—the first bestselling book by a transgendered American. The story of her remarkable transformation from James to Jenny was featured on Oprah, ... (more)The Today Show, and Larry King Live. In I’m Looking Through You, she writes about her life growing up in “Coffin House,” a dilapidated mansion on Philadelphia’s Main Line.

Manic is Terri Cheney’s harrowing first-person account of bipolar disorder, written by a former prominent Hollywood attorney who represented everyone from Michael Jackson to Universal Studios. Rendered in heartbreaking prose that probes the depths of depression and the shaky heights of mania, Cheney’s memoir “is not an easy book to read, but has heart and soul to spare” (People).

Memoir Panel moderated by Marion Winik