According to the Jan. 2 New York Observer, Peter Golenbock, whose most recent sexsationalized 7, his novel about Mickey Mantle drew near-unanimous scorn, has signed a contract with John Wiley & Sons to write a biography of increasingly uninvolved Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The project has a working title of The Boss.
“One wonders whether Mr. Golenbock’s controversial [novel] … will make it harder for him to get access to the famously cagey Yankees,” writes the Observer‘s
He reports “the book is still in its very early stages, and that Mr. Golenbock has not yet reached out to Mr. Steinbrenner or any other officials in the Yankees organization.”
Paul Fedorko, Golenbock’s literary agent, said his client has “been working on this stuff for a while. A lot of what he has now is Yankees stuff. We’re hoping it’ll become Steinbrenner stuff.”
Perhaps still smarting from the bad press from 7, Golenbock did not respond to a request for comment from the Observer reporter; his editor at Wiley “referred all questions to Mr. Fedorko.”
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