Are you among the millions of people who’ve watched Susan Boyle perform “I Dreamed a Dream” on YouTube? Did you buy her album, helping it debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart?
If so, you’ll be excited to hear that Boyle has sold a deal to write a memoir titled The Woman I Was Born to Be. Atria will publish the book in the fall of this year.
Whether you love them or hate them, celebrity memoirs are here to stay (see recent posts on Judi Dench and Ashley Judd). But since her rise to fame is so unique to the social media age, perhaps Boyle will have some interesting insights? (Right now, all we know is that Boyle’s book will chronicle her “unlikely journey to stardom.”)
What’s your favorite celeb memoir?
Angela’s Ashes was a great memoir.
The Ragman’s Son by Kirk Douglas is definitely my favorite memoir.
I like music biographies. One of my favorites was “Love Janis” by Laura Joplin.
Audition, by Barbara Walters. Took me nearly a month to read it, but her