For me, grief isn’t linear,” writes the younger Williams. “It loops and echoes. It softens, then crescendos. But alongside it lives a legacy, the kind built not from fame or recognition, but from generosity and relentless kindness.

As the '80s progressed, Robin Williams ramped up his acting career, with roles in movies like The World According to Garp, Moscow on the Hudson and other films. He soon proved that he was more than just a jokester, when he was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a '60s-era DJ in the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam.

Zak is the eldest son of Williams and his first wife, Valerie Velardi, whom he married in 1978 and divorced in 1988. Williams had two other children, daughter Zelda, 35, and son Cody, 33, from his second marriage to Marsha Garces Williams, which lasted from 1989 to 2010.