Curtis Armstrong Inks Memoir Deal

By Maryann Yin 

Curtis Armstrong has signed a memoir deal with the St. Martin’s Press imprint, Thomas Dunne Books. He has become well-known as the actor who portrayed Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds movie.

Brendan Deneen, an executive editor, negotiated the deal with Matthew Elblonk, an agent at DeFiore & Company Literary Management. The release has been tentatively scheduled for 2017.

Armstrong (pictured, via) had this statement in the press release: “People are always asking me—well, someone did the other day—why it is that after 40 years of capering under hot lights for everyone’s amusement, I’ve never written a memoir. Well, as it happens, while everyone assumed I was just loafing around out here, nursing a drug habit and living off residuals, writing a memoir was exactly what I was doing! Drawing on journals, diary entries, notebooks, letters, pictures, documents and new interviews with some of the prominent players, A Nerd’s Progress will take you behind the scenes of the nerd revolution, and to a time when a perfect mix of belching contests, nose-picking and wonder-joints put a nerd like me on the map in Hollywood.”