Sarah Jessica Parker opened to how her mother implanted love for reading in her heart.
In a recent chat at 92ny event with author Victoria Redel and editor Adam Moss at Kaye Playhouse in New York City, the 60-year-old actress shared how she adopted a love for books from her mother, Barbra’s first.
The And like that … Actress revealed that her mother was a passionate reader and used to draw books on signals and stops.
“She read everything from the time she was a little girl,” Parker remembered. “She went to a very good high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she somehow spoke librarians in her public school library as well as our community library to hold on to the New Yorker and Sunday Times for her.”
Parker further looked back at her childhood and shared that she never owned a children’s book, but rather used to buy from a local library.
“We were at our local public library all the time. It’s our only way of having books. We didn’t buy books, we didn’t own books that were our age. My parents owned books … We just read every great classic children’s book,” Parker shared.
The Hocus Pocus Star’s Love for Reading led to her having its own release imprint, SJP Lit, launched by 2022.
“We try to find books that we are really excited about, which really wow us right away,” Parker added. “We hope we get the chance to publish them and either introduce a writer to the readers or introduce a writer who debuts as a writer … Every time a writer says yes, it is a very big thing for us.”
