In this video Q&A, English professor Scott Saul discusses his new book, Becoming Richard Pryor. The richly researched biography about the comedian is accompanied by a website, “Richard Pryor’s Peoria,” which presents more than 200 photographs and documents from Pryor’s first two decades in Peoria, Ill. Saul, who says he is especially interested in “how particular artists are catalyzed by the history they are living through,” worked on the book for more than six years. Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/12/17/berkeley-prof-on-becoming-richard-pryor/ http://www.berkeley.edu http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley http://twitter.com/UCBerkeley http://instagram.com/ucberkeleyofficial https://plus.google.com/+berkeley