Penn to pen his first novel

Sean Penn, the celebrated actor and activist, will release his debut novel next year, a “darkly humurous” tale titled “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff.”

Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, will publish “Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff ” in March. The novel is based on an audiobook Penn released last year under the pseudonym Pappy Pariah.

According to a news release from Atria, the novel “tells the picaresque story of Bob Honey, a middle-aged, divorced, disillusioned man living in a nondescript house on a nondescript street in Woodview, California.”

“Bob Honey” will be the first novel from Penn, who won Academy Awards for his roles in the films “Mystic River” and “Milk.”