Amanda Knox Allegedly Sells Rights to Memoir for $4 Million
By Juli Weiner
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to exonerated murder suspect Amanda Knox's forthcoming memoir for a reported $4 million, The New York Times reports. HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham said of the book: "No one has yet heard Amanda Knox's own account of what happened, and this book will give Knox an opportunity to tell the story in full detail, for the first time. It will be the story of a crime and a trial, but also a moving account of a young woman's struggle to cope with a nightmarish ordeal that placed her at the center of a media storm, and led to her imprisonment." The Italian translation should certainly be interesting! We hear translators have already begun working on the acknowledgements:
"I want to thank the Italian police department for all their conscientious, diligent, and careful investigating. The protracted trial, contaminated evidence, and unorthodox interrogation was as much my fault as theirs. If I weren't so confounding and odd, oh mio Dio! I had a very nice flight back to American on Alitalia, by the way."
See more: "Perugia's Prime Suspect," by Judy Bachrach.