Michelson is a prolific children's book author with a few illustrated biographies under his belt. Early in the book readers meet Nimoy's Yiddish-speaking parents and grandparents who moved to a Boston settlement house after fleeing Eastern Europe. Michelson weaves these kinds of formative anecdotes from Nimoy’s childhood through the biography. He said, 'Actors starve for a living, but there’s always a need for a musician.' ' When Leonard did go to Hollywood his father’s only advice was: Learn to play the accordion. 'His parents - they wanted him to fit in - they did not want him to be an actor.

They all came to this country escaping pogroms,' Michelson explains. Young Leonard Nimoy with a camera in the new illustrated children's book about his life. Walking through the exhibition space, Michelson points to a glass case housing Nimoy’s original camera - a Kodak Bellows - and says the first picture Nimoy ever captured was of his grandfather. In a nod to Star Trek’s 50th anniversary, a new show features 50 of Nimoy’s photographs. Michelson has represented Nimoy’s exploratory visual work for more than a decade. That's how he became friends with Michelson who owns an art gallery in Northampton. But he was also a conceptual photographer who spoke fluent Yiddish. It's safe to say most people know Nimoy as the actor who played the Enterprise’s highly logical science officer Mr. While “Fascinating” is a children’s book, its economically-worded pages reveal poetic and profound connections between Nimoy’s upbringing in a Jewish immigrant family and his much-loved, iconic Star Trek character. Nimoy's friend Richard Michelson read those words when we sat down to talk about the new biography he's written for kids (and likely their Trekkie parents). His parents were immigrants who felt like aliens in America and certainly didn’t understand Leonard’s drive to perform.” “Once there was a boy named Leonard who loved to sing and to act.

Now 'Fascinating' is also the title of a new children's book celebrating Nimoy’s life, which began in Boston’s West End in 1931. Spock in the 1960s TV series 'Star Trek,' which aired for the first time 50 years ago last month. Leonard Nimoy transported the word 'fascinating' into the pop culture lexicon as Mr. An image of Spock from Richard Michelson and Edel Rodriquez's new children's book, 'Fascinating.' (Courtesy) This article is more than 6 years old.

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