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EXCLUSIVE: For Life executive producer Isaac Wright Jr. – the inspiration for the ABC series about a falsely imprisoned man – has closed a deal with St. Martin's Press to publish his upcoming memoir Marked For Life in 2022. Written by Wright with Jon Sternfeld, the book, which Deadline hears was snagged by St…

The Bench, Meghan Markle’s first children’s book that’s set for publication on June 8, was inspired by “the special bond” husband Prince Harry and son Archie, the publisher said Tuesday. The book, with watercolor illustrations by Christian Robinson, began as a poem that Markle says she wrote for Harry on the first…

Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk is writing a memoir that his publisher Random House says will address “the highs and lows of showbiz, his legendary cult status as a comedian, and what it's like to reinvent a showbiz career after fifty and scale new heights.” Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir will be published…

Arthur T. Birsh, whose job titles during his 50-year career at Playbill, the nation’s most recognizable theater program, included publisher, president, chairman, and most recently chairman emeritus, died Wednesday, April 14, at his home in Key Largo, Florida. He was 88. His death was announced yesterday by wife Joan…

Former Vice President Mike Pence is writing his autobiography, signing with Simon & Schuster to publish his memoirs that will cover his life from Columbus, Indiana, to governor to his tenure as Donald Trump’s vice president. The publisher said that they signed a two-book deal with Pence, with the first book…

Rupert Muroch's News Corp said Monday it will acquire the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for $349 million in cash and merge it with HarperCollins amid ongoing consolidation in the book publishing business. HMH Books & Media has an extensive backlist, “a sustainable and growing source of revenues…

A book that’s a spinoff of author Dav Pilkey’s popular Captain Underpants series will no longer be published by Scholastic, which also asked that copies in circulation at libraries and other distributors be returned. In a statement, Scholastic said that it will no longer publish or distribute Pilkey's 2010 graphic…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment veteran Pamela Levine, most recently president of Worldwide Theatrical Marketing for Twentieth Century Fox and former chief marketing officer of HBO, has joined start-up BookClub as CMO. The company, which will launch this spring as a digital and mobile platform, has also tapped entertainment…

Dramatists Play Service, the theatrical licensing and publishing agency formed in 1936 that represents scores the stage’s most prominent playwrights, has been acquired by Broadway Licensing in what the companies are calling a landmark agreement. Broadway Licensing, a full-service theatrical licensing partner…

Group Nine Acquisition Corp. said Tuesday it has named CNN chief Jeff Zucker and Technicolor vice chair Melinda Mount to its board of directors, adding firepower as it searches for digital media properties. Units of the SPAC (special purpose acquisition company), created late last year by top executives of Group Nine M…

Norton Juster, author of the acclaimed modern classic children’s books The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line, died last night. He was 91. His death was confirmed by Penguin Random House. Additional details were not immediately available. Both of Juster’s most well-known works of the early 1960s were adapted…

News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson said Thursday "the terms of trade for content are changing fundamentally," citing a global news sharing deal the company signed last week with Google. That deal was announced as Facebook banned news for users and publishers in Australia, to protest a law requiring a more balanced…