Barbra Streisand loves a spot of nostalgia. She sang about memories lighting the corners of her mind on 1974 hit The Way We Were, covered Andrew Lloyd Webber and Trevor Nunn’s Cats centrepiece Memory in 1981, and is now set to commit her own memories to the page in an autobiography.
Book publishing imprint Viking, owned by Penguin, announced on Wednesday that it had bought the rights to publish her story in 2017.
“Barbra Streisand’s memoir is the entertainment story that has been on the top of every publisher’s wish list for years,” said Brian Tart, Viking’s president in a statement. “There are over 50 unauthorised biographies about Ms Streisand that are full of myths and inaccuracies, and she is finally going to tell her own story.”
Streisand earned her big break in 1960 and the memoir is due to cover her childhood and the entire trajectory of her career, according to her official website. In October 2014, Streisand became the first artist to top Billboard Hot 200 album chart in each one of the last six consecutive decades, most recently with album Partners.
The book will be edited by Rick Kot, executive editor at Viking.
