Prince co-author details `extremely unlikely` story behind new memoir in New Yorker article
(WorldNews Entertainment)

The relatively unknown co-author of the highly anticipated - and predictably mysterious - Prince memoir has written a piece in this week`s issue of the New Yorker detailing how he got the gig, and offering a few hints of what to expect. Titled `The Book of Prince,` Dan Piepenbring`s article recounts how he was one of two `extremely unlikely` writers selected from a list sent to the singer by the publisher, Spiegel & Grau (a Random House imprint). Both choices had one thing in common: Neither of them had written a book before. Prince cited Miles Davis` autobiography, John Howard Griffin`s `Black Like Me` and the...