Paul Newman's memoir to be released next year

Fourteen years after his death, Paul Newman's memoirs have been found and will be published.

The

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began writing his autobiography with screenwriter Stewart Stern in the 1980s, but when he died in 2008, when he was 83, the writing was still pending.

The documents remained in his Connecticut home, where his wife Joanne Woodward still lives.

In the book, in bulk, the star delivers on "the comedy, the direction, his childhood, his family, the celebrity, Hollywood, Broadway, the love, his first marriage, his marriage of 50 years with Joanne Woodward, drinking, politics, racing, his rise to stardom, and aging gracefully, ”according to the editor.

Irresistible

The book does not yet have an official title, but Alfred A. Knopf has already announced the content of the work, which will shed particular light on the doubts that inhabited Paul Newman. “Through the voices of Newman and those of others, the book captures the paradoxical and overwhelming rise of a star who struggled with doubt, believing he was inferior to Marlon Brando and James Dean, and who has yet transcended his status as a "hunk" to become an Oscar winner, a racing champion, a social activist and an entrepreneur whose philanthropy has generated nearly a billion dollars for charitable causes ", adds the editor in a press release relayed by Deadline.

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