Leona Lewis Writing Her Memoirs

Posted on January 9, 2009

British pop star Leona Lewis, the X Factor winner who performed in front of a worldwide audience during the summer Olympics, is writing her autobiography for British book publisher Hodder & Stoughton. The book will be released in October, 2009.

Since winning the 2006 season of The X Factor, Lewis has broken sales records, serenaded Mandela and performed at the Beijing Olympics with Jimmy Page. The book will include over 100 new photographs, suggesting that pictures � and not meticulous prose - will be the means by which Lewis tells her tale.
"The last two years have been an unbelievable experience for me," she said in a statement. "So to have it documented in pictures and to be able to tell people in my own words how it feels means a lot to me." Dean Freeman, who worked on David Beckham's autobiography, has been hired to take new photographs of the 23-year-old -- of Lewis hunched over a typewriter perhaps, or thumbing through the Oxford English Dictionary.
"This will be the first time Leona tells her story of how the X Factor launched her from waitressing in Pizza Hut in Hackney to stardom on both sides of the Atlantic," raved Fenella Bates, Lewis's editor at Hodder & Stoughton. "It is a real-life fairytale and every girl's dream."

We think we need a new name for "autobiographies" of people who are in their early twenties. They really haven't lived very long. Perhaps a proto-auto-biography? Too wordy. How about calling it a Prequel? Because surely she'll do more that's worth writing about in the years to come.