Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)?
Jay Ellis, known for the HBO series Insecure, tells the story of his childhood in this collection of essays. As an only child and a military brat, he changed schools constantly and rarely got to put down roots, so he invented an imaginary friend named Mikey to keep him company. Mikey was part Dwayne Wayne, part Will Smith, and occasionally a bad influence who got young Jay into trouble. With humor and honesty, Ellis writes about race, identity, fitting in, and the small survival tricks of a kid always starting over. The result is a warm, funny memoir of boyhood and the imagination it takes to get through it.
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The Insecure actor looks back on a military-brat boyhood and the imaginary friend, Mikey, who helped him survive being the perpetual new kid.
Jay Ellis is an actor best known for playing Lawrence on HBO's Insecure. Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)? is his debut memoir, published in 2024.
Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)? was written by Jay Ellis, published in 2024 by One World.
Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)? is 256 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)? takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (Or Just Me)? is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
