New Jimmy Carter Memoir To Simon & Schuster
By Matthew Thornton -- Publishers Weekly, 5/15/2007 12:54:00 PM
Former President Jimmy Carter has just made a deal for a new memoir with Alice Mayhew at Simon & Schuster. The untitled work is an account of Carter’s post-presidential career, and will describe his efforts, and those of the Carter Center, on behalf of some of the most neglected issues of the past 25 years—from the Middle East to North Korea, Sudan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and China. Carter and the Center have monitored more than 65 elections and worked throughout Africa to eradicate disease. S&S has added the title to its fall schedule.
Carter, a Nobel laureate, is the author of numerous bestselling books, most recently the controversial Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which S&S published last year. His latest memoir, Sharing Good Times, was published by S&S in 2004. Mayhew acquired North American rights to the new book from Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & Nesbit for an undisclosed figure.
