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Picador has bought the rights to a biography of Barack Obama by New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick.
Kate Harvey, editorial director at Picador, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Kathy Robbins, literary agent at The Robbins Office.
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama is a look at both the life of the American president and the history of race in America. The title will be published by Picador on 28th May this year.
Harvey said: "We’re thrilled to be publishing David Remnick’s most exceptional book to date. The Bridge gives us Barack Obama's story in its richest, fullest context: personal, social and political. Just as in King of the World, Remnick brings to this new book his unsurpassed gift for animating history through the life of a remarkable man."
Remnick conducts hundreds of interviews for the book, talking to family, friends, teachers, professors, mentors, donors, and rivals of Barack Obama, as well as with the President himself. The Bridge also includes correspondence by Obama as well as letters written by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, published for the first time.
Remnick won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Lenin's Tomb (Vintage Books), about the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also wrote King of the World (Picador) which was published in 1999.