Drew Signs Up Bush, Thomas
by Judy Quinn -- Publishers Weekly, 6/16/1997
"He's never going to do his autobiography," declared Scribner editor Lisa Drew said to PW about George Bush, but that d sn't mean the former president won't be providing some reading material. First out will be A World Transformed, a much-delayed foreign-policy discussion cowritten with former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and tentatively scheduled to be published by Knopf in spring of 1998. Drew will work with Bush to cull from his journals, memos and letters, and plans to publish the resulting book in 1999. Also planned for publication that year is the autobiography of 76-year-old Helen Thomas, the UPI reporter who has been on the White House beat since 1961. Drew won the book in an auction conducted by Diane Nine, president of Washington, D.C.-based Nine Speakers Inc., for a reported mid-six-figure sum.
