Roy Wood Jr. is a man of many projects and, as his upcoming memoir will explain, a man of many fathers.
Wood is set to release his first book, The Man of Many Fathers: Life Lessons Disguised as a Memoir, this fall.
In its announcement, Crown Publishing said the book will delve into the “lessons and values he’s distilled from the unexpected figures who shaped his life after his father’s passing.” After losing his own father at the age of sixteen, those father figures have included a variety of people he has encountered, from teenage friends to former Daily Show host Trevor Noah. The Man of Many Fathers explores the lessons Wood gleaned from them in order to help “fill in [the] blanks” of what he wasn’t able to learn from his own dad.
Wood revealed the cover for the book on a Father’s Day-themed episode of The Tamron Hall Show on Monday.
After exiting The Daily Show in 2023, the comic teased the “book about fatherhood” as one of several projects he had been working on.
Earlier this year, Wood released his fourth standup special, Lonely Flowers, on Hulu. Fresh off hosting the 85th Peabody Awards, he’s set to return for another season of CNN’s Have I Got News For You in September, as well as a companion podcast launching this summer. Wood will also be seen in the upcoming Apple TV+ film Outcome, written and directed by Jonah Hill.
The Man of Many Fathers is due out October 28th via Crown Publishing, and is available for pre-order now.
