Anchorage Man Tells His Story Of Redemption In Memoir
BY DAVID JAMES “How did I, an Ivy League graduate from Dartmouth, become a crack-addicted drifter sleeping in a closet,” author Ken Miller asks in the opening pages of his memoir. Getting arrested in that cockroach-infested utility closet in a dilapidated Reno boarding house doesn’t sound like the springboard for redemption from a quarter-century maelstrom of substance abuse, crime and self-destruction on levels all but impossible to imagine. But it was. How Miller survived and emerged from someplace far below rock bottom is what readers will discover in his bracingly honest and utterly compelling book, “Becoming Ken: One Black Man’s Journey from Ivy League to Prison and Back Again.” Miller, founder and president of Anchorage fundraising and grant consulting company Denali FSP, tells his story in plainspoken language. It’s an account of his meteoric fall from seemingly unlimited potential to addiction, desperation, homelessness and degradation, followed by redemption. He offers it as b...
