Anna Nicole Smith Biography Reissued

Posted on February 16, 2007

The death of playmate Anna Nicole Smith has promoted one publisher to reissue the 1996 biography written by Eric and D'Eva Redding for Barricade Books entitled Great Big Beautiful Doll. It's the only biography out on the market.

The Times reports that there will be an additional printing of 15,000 copies. The book costs $16.95 in hardcover and is schedule to be reissued in trade paperback.

Last fall, Carole Stuart, the publisher of Barricade Books, had observed Ms. Smith's recent troubles, notably, the death of her 20-year-old son and the paternity dispute over her newborn daughter. (Ms. Stuart's late husband, the publisher Lyle Stuart, was famous for courting controversy with books like The Anarchist Cookbook, The Turner Diaries and the literary hoax Naked Came the Stranger.)
"I just thought, so much has happened in the 10 years since the first book came out that it would make a good trade paperback," Ms. Stuart said. "Then of course last week she dies. And so we suddenly got really, really attractive to the distributors and to the book buyers."
She added hastily: "We didn't kill her or anything."

Another biography is in the works, as well. Anna Nicole's half-sister Donna Hogan is writing one entitled Train Wreck: Anna Nicole Unauthorized and is apparently a hatchet job on Anna Nicole. So who is going to play Anna Nicole in the numerous screenplays that are being furiously written as we speak? You need someone with the stature (Anna Nicole was 5' 11"), so we're thinking Charlize Theron, Pita Wilson or Rebecca Romjin.