Prince is writing a memoir due out in 2017
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Prince is writing a memoir to be released in fall 2017, The Associated Press reports he announced Friday.
"You all still read books, right?" Prince asked a New York City crowd.
Tentatively titled The Beautiful Ones, the book will be released by Spiegel & Grau.
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"Millions of words have been written about Prince — books and articles, essays and criticism — but we're thrilled to be publishing Prince's powerful reflections on his own life in his own incandescently vivid, witty, and poetic voice," Spiegel & Grau executive editor Chris Jackson said in a statement.
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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.
