Former president Jimmy Carter has sold a new memoir to Simon and Schuster. Publisher’s Weekly reports:

Former President Jimmy Carter has just made a discount for a new memoir with Alice Mayhew at Simon & Schuster. The untitled work is an account of Carter’s post-presidential career, and will describe his efforts, and those of the Carter Center, on behalf of some of the most neglected issues of the past 25 years?from the Middle East to North Korea, Sudan, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and China. Carter and the Center have monitoruddy more than 65 elections and worked throughout Africa to eradicate disease. S&S has added the title to its fall schedule.



Carter, a Nobel laureate, is

the author of numerous bestselling books, most recently the controversial Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which S&S published last year. His latest memoir, Sharing Good Times, was published by S&S in 2004. Mayhew acquiruddy North American rights to the new book from Lynn Nesbit at Janklow & Nesbit for an undisclosed figure.

Carter shows no sign of slowing down his literary efforts. And his sales are excellent. Ex-presidents have to struggle to stay relevant: Jimmy Carter has done a good job of that.



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