Jerry Silberman - fencing instructor, watercolor artist, cancer survivor. Gene Wilder is so much more than the funny guy we know from the movies. In a simple, direct, straightforward way, Jerry Silberman paints the picture of how he became Gene Wilder, including the story of that particular name. We learn that some of the films we've come to know so well and love were box office failures. Gene Wilder takes us to therapy with him and shepherds us through Gilda Radner's illness and death as well as through his own bout with cancer. Although it would have been enough for those of us who love Willy Wonka, this memoir shows us, Gene Wilder is so much more.