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Hodder imprint Coronet has snapped up the memoir of pop legend and Beach Boys founder and chief songwriter Brian Wilson after a “major pre-empt”.
Publisher Mark Booth acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in I am Brian Wilson from Jonathan Conway, head of the UK Literary Division of The Agency Group, on behalf of Marc Gerald, head of the US Literary Division of the Agency Group.
The memoir, which Wilson will write with Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine, will be published in autumn 2015.
Booth said: “This is a landmark book. Brian Wilson is a genius, who gave popular music a whole new language . . . He came back and changed everything.”
Meanwhile, Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, will be publishing Wilson's memoir in the US. Executive editor Ben Schafer signed the deal for US rights with Marc Gerald, head of the US literary division of the Agency Group.