From the Duke of Sussex spilling some royal tea to a stylist looking back at a life spent challenging conventions, the coming weeks have much to offer when it comes to celebrity autobiographies. Instep takes a quick look.
Spare by Prince Harry
Whether you see him as an over-privileged attention-seeking disruptor or someone who is trying to protect his family from, well, the rest of his family, either way you have to admit that Prince Harry (or whoever is managing his PR) has mastered the art of staying in the gossip columns. Since stepping back from royal duties, the prince and his wife have been busy ruffling feathers with things like the by-now infamous Oprah interview and the new Netflix documentary series about the couple that will be giving the British royal family a royal headache by the time you read these words.
If you still aren’t tired of hearing about the Sussexes, then you’re in luck because Harry has written an autobiography that will hit the bookshelves next month. Titled Spare, the volume is being marketed as an “up-close, behind the scenes, intimate, and forthright memoir of a man reclaiming his own story”, and is expected to cover his life from childhood to present day.
Spare will be published by Penguin Random House in 16 languages simultaneously on January 10, 2023.
Love, Pamela
by Pamela Anderson
One of the most prominent names of the ‘90s, Pamela Anderson was a ubiquitous presence – from pinups to screens to tabloids – in the era, often just as much for her personal life as her professional work. The Canadian-born actress is now telling her story in the memoir Love, Pamela, a book that features “vivid prose interspersed with bursts of original poetry” because why not.
The biography takes a look at the star’s life “as a mother, as an activist, and as an actress”. Pamela has called the memoir “a celebration of imperfections” and described it as an “unpolished attempt”, adding that she had no co-writer for the project. (The actress also announced earlier this year that a tell-all Netflix documentary about her life is currently in the works.)
Published by HarperCollins and Dey Street Books, Love, Pamela will be released on January 31, 2023.
Call Me Anne
by Anne Heche
Shortly before her untimely death in a terrible car crash earlier this year, Anne Heche had turned in a manuscript for her memoir to her publisher. That book, titled Call Me Anne, will now be published posthumously and will serves as a follow-up to her first memoir, Call Me Crazy, which was released in 2001 and focused on her mental health struggles.
The new autobiography will discuss, among other things, her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, an encounter with Harvey Weinstein, and stories about co-stars including Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin.
Call Me Anne will be available on January 24, 2023 via Start Publishing.
Pat in the City
by Patricia Field
The celebrated stylist responsible for the iconic outfits worn by some of the most fabulously chic characters – from Carrie Bradshaw to Emily Cooper – has now put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard?) to tell her story in Pat in the City, the upcoming memoir by “fashion provocateur” Patricia Field.
The Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American costume designer looks back at her very eventful life in the book, detailing “her journey from scrappy Queens kid peddling men’s pants to the fashion world’s most notorious renegade”.
Pat in the City offers a “playful yet intimate” look at “a life spent challenging conventions”, and is set to be released on February 14, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers.