'Happy Days' star Anson Williams coming to Naperville

Anson Williams, who gained fame as Potsie on television's "Happy Days," will be in Naperville Sunday, Nov. 16, to sign copies of his new memoir at Anderson's Bookshop.

Williams is scheduled to sign copies of the book, "Singing to a Bulldog," at 2 p.m. at Anderson's, 123 W. Jackson Ave.

Numbers to hold your place in the book signing line are available at Anderson's with the purchase of the book. Customers also may purchase by phone at (630) 355-2665 or online at andersonsbookshop.com.

The book follows Williams from his years growing up in 1950s California.

Young Anson William Heimlich showed little promise in his early years. Clumsy, unsure of himself, and made to feel like a failure by his disappointed artist of a dad, he started working odd jobs as a teenager to help support his family.

His boss at one of the jobs, an aging janitor named Willie, unexpectedly became a mentor - and the lessons he taught young Williams proved to be invaluable throughout his career as an actor, director and entrepreneur.

In "Singing to a Bulldog," Williams relates both those lessons and the never-before-revealed stories of the many seminal TV series he has worked on and the famous (and not-so-famous) folks he's encountered during his 40 years in Hollywood, including being directed by Steven Spielberg in his first dramatic role; getting kidnapped by Gerald Ford's daughter at the White House; subbing for Sammy Davis Jr. as a headliner with Bill Cosby; being humbled by Sunny, a young volunteer for the Cerebral Palsy National Organization; mentoring Shailene Woodley on the set of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and more.