Barbra Streisand To Publish First Memoir, ‘My Identify Is Barbra’ – Deadline

In a first-time first-person account of her life and profession, legendary singer, actress, director and producer Barbra Streisand will publish her memoir, My Identify is Barbra, on November 7, 2023 through Penguin Random Home imprint Viking. The Penguin Group made it official on Tuesday, calling the tome “engrossing and pleasant.” There have been dozens of books written in regards to the now 80-year-old artist, however this would be the first to inform her story in her personal phrases.

And by account, it’s a number of phrases. Pre-order listings have it clocking in at 1,040 pages. Becoming for a girl whose groundbreaking profession has spanned six many years and included two Oscars, 5 Emmys, 10 Grammys, 11 Golden Globes and a Tony in addition to numerous different awards.

Streisand is among the many handful of EGOT winners and has probably the most recognizable voices within the historical past of well-liked music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 occasions. Her first Oscar was for Greatest Actress, in a breakout efficiency as Fanny Brice in 1968’s Humorous Woman. She adopted that up with a Greatest Unique Tune win for “Evergreen,” the theme from A Star is Born, which made her the primary feminine composer to earn an Academy Award within the class.

With 1983’s Yentl, she grew to become the primary lady to write down, produce, direct and star in a significant movement image. Her 1991 adaptation of The Prince of Tides was nominated for seven Oscars together with Greatest Image however famously not Greatest Director which that 12 months’s Oscar host Billy Crystal known as out in his opening tune and dance. Different movie credit embrace What’s Up, Doc?; Whats up, Dolly; The Manner We Had been and The Mirror Has Two Faces.

Amongst her memorable No. 1 singles are “The Manner We Had been”; “Evergreen”; “You Don’t Deliver Me Flowers,” a duet with Neil Diamond; “No Extra Tears (Sufficient is Sufficient),” with Donna Summer season; and “Lady in Love.”

Per Penguin Random Home (whose Century imprint will publish within the UK), My Identify Is Barbra will see Streisand hint her life from rising up in Brooklyn to her first appearances in New York nightclubs and the lengthy string of successes in each medium within the years that adopted. 

The e book, says the writer, “is like Barbra herself, frank, humorous, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to change into an actress, finally turning to singing to earn a residing; the recording of a few of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort concerned in making Yentl; her course of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures starting from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the achievement she’s present in her marriage to James Brolin.”

“My Identify is Barbra” was additionally the title of a 1965 Streisand album and TV particular, which scored a Grammy and two Emmys, respectively.