Woody Allen has been largely shunned by Hollywood. Now, Allen appears to be losing stature in another quarter of the entertainment industry: publishing. In the last year, Allen quietly tried to sell a memoir, according to executives at four major publishing houses, only to be met with indifference or hard passes. Executives at multiple publishing houses said that an agent representing Allen approached their companies about the memoir late last year, but that they made no offers, largely because of the negative publicity that working with Allen may have generated. The executives said they knew of no other publishers who offered Allen a book deal; if one has, it has been kept tightly under wraps, and the manuscript does not seem to have been widely pitched.

Source: New York Times May 02, 2019 19:19 UTC