Serena Williams’ 2-book deal starts with memoir
NEW YORK — Now that she's stepped back from the sport she dominated like few others, Serena Williams is ready to reflect.
The tennis great has a two-book deal with the Random House Publishing Group, starting with an “intimate” memoir in which she will open up about everything from her childhood and early tennis training, dramatized in the 2021 film “King Richard,” to her extraordinary career and the obstacles and setbacks she endured along the way. The book is not yet titled and does not have a release date.
“For so long, all I was focused on was winning, and I never sat down to look back and reflect on my life and career," Williams, who in August gave birth to her second child, said in a statement Wednesday. "Over the
last year I’ve really enjoyed taking the time with my growing family to celebrate my accomplishments and explore my other passions. I couldn’t be at a more perfect place to be able to take-on such a personal intimate project, and there’s no one I would rather do it with than the team at Random House.”
The second book will be an “inspirational” work, according to Random House, which announced that “Williams will offer rules for living that draw on her experiences as a philanthropist and advocate, her career as an investment unicorn with Serena Ventures, and someone who has long sought to lift a diverse and emergent generation of young women whose aspirations are not confined to the court.”
Williams, 42, announced her retirement — famously saying instead she was “evolving” away from professional tennis — shortly before the 2022 U.S. Open.