Cher’s first-ever memoir will be published by Harper NonFiction in November.
The deal for world rights for Cher: The Memoir, Part One was brokered with agent Alan Nevins at Renaissance Literary & Talent, with Harper NonFiction publisher Katya Shipster working alongside Dey Street Books vice-president and publisher Carrie Thornton on the co-publication.
Harper NonFiction will publish the first instalment on 19th November 2024. The book will be also published by HarperCollins in Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, France and Brazil. Cher: The Memoir, Part Two will follow in 2025.
HarperCollins said: “Cher: The Memoir reveals the daughter, the sister, the wife, the lover, the mother and the superstar. It is a life too immense for only one book.”
The publisher added: “The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person… Cher herself. After more than 70 years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled.
“The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center. She is a tireless activist and philanthropist.”
The blurb continued: “As a dyslexic child who dreamed of becoming famous, Cher was raised in often chaotic circumstances, surrounded by singers, actors and a mother who inspired her in spite of their difficult relationship. With her trademark honesty and humour, Cher: The Memoir traces how this diamond in the rough succeeded with no plan and little confidence to become the trailblazing superstar the world has been unable to ignore for more than half a century.
“Cher: The Memoir, Part One follows her extraordinary beginnings through childhood to meeting and marrying Sonny Bono – and reveals the highly complicated relationship that made them world-famous, but eventually drove them apart.”
