The season of memoirs: Grace Jones, Chrissie Hynde share book details
Singer, actress and model Grace Jones and The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde have both unveiled details this week about their upcoming memoirs, both due out in September and part of a line-up of anticipated memoirs by female musicians releasing this fall.
Jones's memoir was first revealed back in 2013 by Gallery Books. Now the book's title has been announced as "I'll Never Write My Memoirs," echoing a statement she made in the earlier announcement: "I wrote a song called 'Art Groupie.' First line said 'I'll never write my memoirs' [but] that was a long time ago. Since then, I thought, if I don't do it, somebody else will."
In the book, the legendary Jamaican performer will cover her impressive career and turbulent life, starting in the disco scene and moving on to more experimental music and film roles.
A release has been set for September 29.
Chrissie Hynde's memoir is slated for a September 8 release, and its cover has now been revealed by The Hollywood Reporter, which also gave a sneak peek at Jones's book cover.
Hynde's "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" will cover the songwriter and Pretenders frontwoman's 35-year career in rock. She'll speak about her childhood in Ohio in the 1950s, her discovery of punk and the stardom of The Pretenders.
The two books arrive just a month before two other highly anticipated memoirs by female musicians.
"Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" by Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein is due out October 27, following the musician's upbringing and the rise of her band in the feminist punk rock movement of the 1990s.
And on October 6, Patti Smith will follow up her highly successful autobiographical book "Just Kids" with "M Train," taking readers on a journey into the mind of the artist and to the many places that have inspired her.
