Author

Books by Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox was born in Burnaby, British Columbia in 1961 and began acting professionally as a teenager. He achieved international fame playing Alex P. Keaton on the television series Family Ties (1982–1989) and became a film star through the Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990). He was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's disease in 1991 at age thirty and disclosed the diagnosis publicly in 1998. He subsequently founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, which has since become the largest private funder of Parkinson's research in the world. He has published four books, including Lucky Man and Always Looking Up.