Simon & Schuster will publish First Lady Laura Bush’s memoirs in 2010, placing the much-anticipated book at the Scribner imprint.
According to the NY Observer, the deal was brokered by attorney Robert B. Barnett (who negotiated for Tony Blair’s memoir), and the book will be edited by Scribner’s editor-in-chief, Nan Graham.
The article quotes a New Yorker piece that examined Bush’s proposal: “‘She was not forthcoming about anything that I would consider controversial,’ one publisher who met with Mrs. Bush before the auction was quoted as saying. ‘We questioned her rigorously, but it was one-word answers. I considered it the worst, or the most frustrating, meeting of its sort that I’ve ever had.'”