HarperCollins Acquires Rights to Amanda Knox Memoir

Posted on February 18, 2012

HarperCollins has announced it will publish a memoir by Amanda Knox. The book is tentatively scheduled for publication in 2013. Knox was charged with murder and incarcerated for four years in Perugia, Italy. She was acquitted of all charges after an appeal. The L.A. Times says Amanda Knox was paid $4 million for the book.

HaperCollins says Amanda Knox will share the truth about her terrifying ordeal in her book. She will give a full account of the events that led to her arrest in Perugia and her struggles with the complexities of the Italian judicial system. Aided by journals she kept during her imprisonment, Knox will also tell of her harrowing experience at the hands of the Italian police and later prison guards and inmates.

Jonathan Burnham says, "Many accounts have been written of the Amanda Knox case, and countless writers and reporters have speculated on what role, if any, was played by Knox in that tragic and terrifying sequence of events. No one has yet heard Amanda Knox's own account of what happened, and this book will give Knox an opportunity to tell the story in full detail, for the first time. It will be the story of a crime and a trial, but also a moving account of a young woman's struggle to cope with a nightmarish ordeal that placed her at the center of a media storm, and led to her imprisonment."