Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a deal to write a memoir, his publisher said on Thursday.
Tentatively titled “Total Recall,” the book is scheduled for publication in Oct. 2012. Simon & Schuster said the book would discuss Mr. Schwarzenegger’s early journey to the United States and his careers in bodybuilding, moviemaking and governing.
“Truly, Arnold is one of the most fascinating figures of our time, and one of the greatest success stories in the world,” Jonathan Karp, the publisher of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement. “Nobody has a life story even close to his.”
Mr. Schwarzenegger began writing the memoir in 2010, his publisher said. He is working with another writer, Peter Petre, former executive editor of Fortune and the co-author of autobiographies by Alan Greenspan and Norman Schwarzkopf. The publisher declined to disclose the advance.
Simon & Schuster, which also published Mr. Schwarzenegger’s “The Education of a Bodybuilder” in 1977, is expected to sell the book to foreign publishers during the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair.
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