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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is planning to launch a memoir on her life titled “Lovely One,” the ebook’s writer introduced Thursday.
In the memoir, Jackson, who made historical past final yr as the primary Black lady to hitch the courtroom, will chart her private historical past, from her upbringing in Miami and her years at Harvard to her early authorized profession, marriage and motherhood, and ascension to the Supreme Court, in line with a press release from Random House.
“Mine has been an unlikely journey,” Jackson mentioned within the assertion. “This memoir marries the public record of my life with what is less known. It will be a transparent accounting of what it takes to rise through the ranks of the legal profession, especially as a woman of color with an unusual name and as a mother and a wife striving to reconcile the demands of a high-profile career with the private needs of my loved ones.”
The memoir can be Jackson’s first ebook. Random House didn’t say in its assertion when the memoir could be launched nor did it word how a lot the justice would make from her ebook cope with the writer.
Random House didn’t instantly reply to Act Daily News’s request for extra particulars on its ebook cope with Jackson.
The Associated Press first reported Jackson’s ebook plans.
It’s not unusual for Supreme Court members to safe profitable ebook offers, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett having acquired a $425,000 fee from the literary company Javelin Group to pen her personal ebook, in line with monetary disclosures launched final yr. Barrett’s ebook has not but been launched.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, in the meantime, authored a broad-audience ebook referred to as “A Republic, If You Can Keep It” in 2019. He acquired $250,000 from the publishing firm HarperCollins in 2021, in line with his 2022 monetary disclosures. The earnings is listed as “book royalties.” Politico reported final yr that the quantity was an advance for a brand new ebook about judicial and regulatory coverage.
And Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s disclosures final yr revealed she had acquired greater than $115,000 in ebook royalties in 2021 from Penguin Random House, which has revealed a number of youngsters’s books by the justice
Of her forthcoming ebook, Jackson mentioned in her assertion Thursday: “My hope is that the fullness of my journey as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, litigator, and friend will stand as a testament for young women, people of color, and dreamers everywhere … especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and believe in the possibility of achieving them.”
Jackson was sworn in as a justice on June 30, 2022. President Joe Biden nominated her earlier that yr to exchange Justice Stephen Breyer, who introduced his retirement from the bench after serving for almost three many years.
This story has been up to date with further particulars.