Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired a new biography about this year’s BEA headliner, Barbra Streisand. Hello, Gorgeous, by William Mann, is scheduled for fall 2012 to coincide with Streisand’s 50th year in show business. Mann (Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn), will cover the trajectory of Streisand’s career from her start in Greenwich Village to her turn on Broadway in Funny Girl to through one of the heights of her success, her 1968 “Happening in Central Park” concert, which drew more than 135,000 fans.
Senior executive editor George Hodgman said previous books about Streisand failed “to capture [her] importance and influence,” and that Mann’s book will be “the real, class act Barbra bio.”
