Prince's memoir to be published in the fall

By the time Prince died in 2016, he had completed 50 hand-written pages of his memoir, titled "The Beautiful Ones." The memoir, filled out with photos and other material, will be published by Random House on October 29. From the Associated Press:

The Beautiful Ones is the deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and the fame that would come to define him, Random House announced.

The book will span from Princes childhood to his early years as a musician to the cusp of international stardom, using Princes own writings, a scrapbook of his personal photos, and the original handwritten lyric sheets for many of his most iconic songs, which he kept at Paisley Park. The book depicts Princes evolution through deeply revealing, never-before-shared images and memories and culminates with his original handwritten treatment for his masterwork, Purple Rain.

(Prince's collaborator on the book Dan) Piepenbrings introduction will touch upon Princes final days, a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique hed so carefully cultivated. Piepenbring, whom Prince had called my brother Dan and not a yes man at all, is a Paris Review advisory editor who also contributes to The New Yorker.