Barbara Streisand’s long-awaited memoir will finally hit bookshelves Nov. 7.
Waiting nine more months for “My Name is Barbra” should be no problem for fans who read in 2015 on Babs’ website that a book was on the way, only to be left in the dark.
The 80-year-old Brooklyn native has long-hinted at a memoir. In 2009, Streisand told the Associated Press she’d written chapters about her life by hand, but wasn’t sure she could commit to a book project.
“Do I really want to relive my life?” she asked. “I’m not sure.”
During a 2021 visit to “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Streisand” said she’d penned more than 800 pages on her experiences, but gave few specifics.
Despite selling more than 150 million albums and appearing in more than a dozen hit films, Streisand’s life has been anything but an open book.
In 2003, she sued a photographer for invasion of privacy after he photographed her Malibu home. Her unsuccessful lawsuit drew more attention to the photo she was attempting to suppress. That unintentional cause-and-effect came to be known as “The Streisand Effect.”
The EGOT winner has been married to actor James Brolin for 25 years. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould. Streisand’s list of famous associates included former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who Streisand told “The Tonight Show” encouraged her to write a memoir in the 1980s.
There’s no word on what Streisand is being paid for her tome. It’s being published by Penguin Random House.
“My Name is Barbra” was also the name of her Grammy-winning 1965 album, which included the singles “Why Did I Choose You?” and “My Man.”
With News Wire Services
