{"id":42386,"date":"2026-05-11T13:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42386"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:57:44","slug":"furman-alum-snl-star-victoria-jackson-writes-book-about-faith-humor-and-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-alum-snl-star-victoria-jackson-writes-book-about-faith-humor-and-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alum, &#8216;SNL&#8217; star Victoria Jackson writes book about faith, humor and mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Jackson, comedian, &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; personality and a regular guest on &#8220;The Tonight Show,&#8221; with Johnny Carson, has written &#8220;Not Dead Yet: A Lifetime of Handstands, Art and Poetry,&#8221; a memoir that traces her life in the wake of a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Jackson attended Furman University in the late 1970s on a gymnastics scholarship and found her love for acting. Her book includes decades of poetry, artwork, photography (including her signature handstands) and personal stories that reflect a &#8220;life marked by humor, resilience and a steadfast commitment to pointing others toward faith.&#8221; Learn more in <a href=\"https:\/\/newmusicreporter.com\/article\/906163876-snl-alum-victoria-jackson-releases-new-book-not-dead-yet-amid-incurable-stage-4-cancer-battle\">New Music Reporter<\/a> and the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iXKpv2phcTk&amp;t=465s\">The Becket Cook Show<\/a>&#8221; on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1970s, Jackson attended Furman where she discovered her love for acting. Now facing health issues, she writes a book including decades of poetry, artwork, photography (including her signature handstands) and personal stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,3535,3536,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news","category-new-music-reporter","category-the-becket-cook-show","category-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42389,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42386\/revisions\/42389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}