Author Bio
Edward M. Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate for forty-seven years. In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia for an oral history project about his life. Since then, he has drawn from his fifty years of contemporaneous notes from his personal diaries and worked closely on this book with Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Powers, coauthor of Flags of Our Fathers and author of Mark Twain: A Life.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A STATEMENT FROM THE PUBLISHER
Contact: Cary Goldstein, Director of Publicity, Twelve
Cary.Goldstein@hbgusa.com, 212/364-1266
We are deeply saddened by today's news. In the final years of his life, we had the honor of working with Senator Kennedy on his autobiography, True Compass. He worked valiantly to finish the book and make it the best it could be. As always, he was true to his word. The result is a great and inspiring legacy to readers everywhere, a case study in perseverance. We look forward to sharing it with the world.
True Compass will be published on September 14, 2009. A special, limited edition will be available by the end of September. For more information and further comment from publisher Jonathan Karp, please visit our website, http://www.twelvebooks.com.
