Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me - Hardcoverby Whoopi Goldberg (Author) From multi award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life. If it weren't for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they needed to succeed in life, always encouraging them to be true to themselves. When Whoopi lost her mother in 2010 and then her older brother, Clyde, five years