What A Life: The (auto)Biography of Shaman/Performance Artist Frank Moore

Over the years, Frank Moore had attempted to find some one to write his biography but it never worked out. In 2010, he decided to start working on it himself. This book is the working document Frank created that he was working on, when he had time, up until his death in 2013. It covers his life up until around 1989. Frank constructed it primarily with the conversations he had with anthropologist Russell Shuttleworth from 1997 through 2009. The complete transcripts of those interviews are available in the book How to Handle an Anthropologist published in 2019 by Inter-Relations. He also used excerpts from his mother, Constance (Connie) Moore’s autobiography, excerpts from his own writing, in particular from “Art of a Shaman,” and an interview by Sheri Falco for a film, “Sex and Spirituality,” that never was made. No attempt has been made to organize this material. It is presented in its raw form, as Frank left it, in the hope it will be valuable for future researchers interested in Moore’s life.