Discredited memoir author and former Gawker intern James Frey has just signed a mega deal with publisher HarperCollins to produce a young-adult book series. » 1/22/14 11:28pm 1/22/14 11:28pm

Those of you who were waiting with bated breath for Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito to pen dueling memoirs will rejoice at the news that both have acquired literary agents. According to TMZ, Knox has signed with Robert Barnett, who has also represented a bipartisan slate of political memoirists… » 12/05/11 4:10pm 12/05/11 4:10pm

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has written a book. Unfortunately, much of that book tries to justify all that lying the Bush administration did to get us into Iraq. Fortunately, she spends some of the book indulging the public's desire to learn about how everyone in the Bush White House was behind closed… » 10/24/11 4:30pm 10/24/11 4:30pm

Next year the British publisher of Anne Frank's diary will release a diary by Helga Weiss, one of the few children from the Czech ghetto of Terezin who survived Auschwitz. Weiss, who grew up to be an internationally known artist, was confronted by Josef Mengele in the camps, but managed to save herself and her mother… » 10/17/11 10:40am 10/17/11 10:40am

1. That week in 1975 she "disappeared" with Bob Marley. » 7/11/11 6:00pm 7/11/11 6:00pm

Julian Assange said he hoped his memoirs "would become one of the unifying documents of our generation." That'll have to wait: The book's been postponed until further notice, because Assange is afraid of the contents being used against him legally. » 7/07/11 5:18pm 7/07/11 5:18pm

If you're in the market for a truly inspiring memoir this year, you're in luck — Jesse James reportedly has a deal with Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The book will apparently come out later this year, so you only have a few months to wait for James's wisdom. » 2/21/11 12:48pm 2/21/11 12:48pm

Call me old-fashioned, but I've always believed a certain degree of discretion — or, really, confidentiality — should prevail in professions like gynecology, drugstore clerking and bikini waxing. And now I'm thinking this should extend to bra-fitting. » 10/14/10 4:15pm 10/14/10 4:15pm

Rachel Shukert's new memoir Everything Is Going To Be Great does something unfortunately rare in women's writing: celebrating mistakes. » 7/20/10 2:45pm 7/20/10 2:45pm

Ready for another "coming-of-age" memoir? Well, since this one grows in a Bronx housing project and becomes a Supreme Court Justice, we are. Sonia Sotomayor just signed a book deal with Knopf for an as-yet-untitled memoir. » 7/12/10 1:42pm 7/12/10 1:42pm

Well, that was quick. Sarah Brown, wife of former British PM Gordon, has announced that she's penning "a behind-the-scenes memoir about life at 10 Downing St." It's tentatively titled Behind the Black Door, and due out in March. [Yahoo] » 6/14/10 7:20pm 6/14/10 7:20pm

Extraordinary, Ordinary People — Condoleezza Rice's first of two memoirs — will be released in October. The book will discuss her family and mentors — readers will have to wait for the sequel for shoe-shopping tips during natural disasters. [NYT] » 1/26/10 2:30pm 1/26/10 2:30pm

Jenny Sanford's book will be released on February 5th, a month earlier than expected, her publishers announced. And Ballantine Books has posted a lengthy synopsis of Staying True, the "candid and compelling memoir" of Sanford's "very public betrayal." [CNN, NYDN] » 1/06/10 9:45am 1/06/10 9:45am