“My mother really wanted to be able to give voice to anybody who needed their voices heard,” Shapiro says. Eartha Kitt and Bill McDonald with newborn Kitt Shapiro (Courtesy of Kitt ...

Just in time for Mother’s Day, Kitt Shapiro, the daughter of the legendary and iconic Eartha Kitt has released a memoir about her life with her mother. During our interview, we discussed the ...

Most know Eartha Kitt as the legendary actress and singer, but for Kitt Shapiro, she was known as ‘mom’. In an interview with Craig Melvin on TODAY Monday, Shapiro explained the superstar’s ...

"My mother survived so much," Eartha Kitt's daughter Kitt Shapiro tells PEOPLE ahead of the release of her memoir Eartha & Kitt Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for ...

Courtesy Eartha Kitt with a young Kitt Shapiro. Shapiro's new memoir, Eartha & Kitt, detailing life with her legendary mother, is out now. “When I think of not having her all these years ...

And, Mrs. Johnson, in case you don’t understand the lingo that’s marijuana.” That baby, Kitt Shapiro, would later manage her mother's career, found Simply Eartha, featuring products inspired ...

When she was closing up her mother’s Connecticut home, Kitt Shapiro, the only child of the late, legendary entertainer Eartha Kitt, kept coming across scraps of paper with handwritten sayings on ...

The role she truly prized, though, was as one girl’s mother. “Eartha & Kitt,” by Kitt Shapiro (courtesy Pegasus Books) That’s the real revelation in “Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love ...

Kitt Shapiro, recounts in her new memoir, Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black & White (excerpted in this week's PEOPLE), the singer was never one to shy away from speaking her mind ...

Eartha Kitt could exude icy glamour in stage, film and TV appearances, but offstage she was remarkably warm and down to earth. The longtime Connecticut resident, who died in 2008 at the age of 81 ...

And, Mrs. Johnson, in case you don’t understand the lingo that’s marijuana.” That baby, Kitt Shapiro, would later manage her mother's career, found Simply Eartha, featuring products inspired ...

In an interview with Craig Melvin on TODAY Monday, Shapiro explained the superstar’s role as a parent and shared that Kitt tucked her into bed every single night. “The Eartha Kitt who lived at ...