Sheila Nevins Finally Shares Her Own Story

HBO’s documentary legend becomes an author with a blend of biography and poetry.

- Lacey Rose

Sheila Nevins is seated in the kitchen of her apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, recounting the horror of her mother’s funeral. “It was all wrong,” she says, rattling off the lies the rabbi told all those years ago: “He said she was a child of God, that [she] was this wonderful mother, that she had embraced a full life …” Nodding to the galley of her forthcoming book on the table, You Don’t Look Your Age … and Other Fairy Tales, Nevins adds, “So, maybe that’s what this is all about — making sure I get it right in case anyone is interested.”