Hyperion Acquires Kris Kristofferson's Memoir

Hyperion announced today plans to publish a first-person memoir by singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson. 
Kris Kristofferson has been a country music singer, 3-time Grammy Award winner, top athlete, Rhodes Scholar, janitor, Hollywood star and Golden Globe winner, alcoholic, husband, father, Army captain, American Veteran's Association Veteran of the Year and political activist. He has become famous as America's sweetest roughneck, a fighter and a lover onstage and off, brutally honest and utterly human.  Perhaps best known as a gifted country music songwriter, Kristofferson's career was launched in 1969 when four of his songs were recorded by artists who made them classics: Sunday Morning Coming Down, Me and Bobby McGee, Help Me Make It Through the Night, and For the Good Times. The book is scheduled for publication in November, 2005 and Kris will write it himself. 
About the book Kristofferson says: "William Blake said, 'The Road to Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom.' He also said 'if the fool would persist in his folly, he'd become wise.' We'll see." 
The announcement was made by Hyperion president Bob Miller.  Of the deal Miller said: "Kris Kristofferson's life has been full of heartbreak, passion, fame and all of the other side-effects of genius.  We can't wait to publish it." 
Bob Miller negotiated the deal with Amy Rennert of the Amy Rennert Agency. The editor for the book will be executive editor Leslie Wells.  Hyperion retains world, serial, audio, book club, and second serial rights. 
Hyperion, which was founded in 1991, publishes general-interest fiction and non-fiction hardcover, trade, and mass-market paperback books for adults and includes the Miramax, ESPN Books, ABC Daytime Press, Hyperion East, Theia, and Hyperion AudioBooks imprints.  Hyperion is the adult trade book publishing unit of ABC, Inc.