PRINCE'S STORY

Random House will publish Prince’s memoir, The Beautiful Ones, on 10/29.

The book, acquired from Prince in 2016, will feature never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets written in Prince’s own hand, and the early pages of the memoir Prince began writing before his death. Dan Piepenbring, the writer Prince selected as his collaborator, wrote the introduction.

The memoir is being published in an exclusive partnership and in collaboration with the Prince Estate.

“His death was an unfathomable loss, but this book—full of writing from his own hand and images that he carefully preserved at Paisley Park—is a beautiful tribute to his life,” says Random House’s Chris Jackson, who orchestrated the acquisition. “It’s also much more than that: it’s a genuinely moving and energizing literary work, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image. It’s a treasure not just for Prince fans but for anyone who wants to see one of our greatest creative artists and original minds at work on his greatest creation: himself.”