Lisa Marie Presley’s biography will be published this fall. Her daughter Riley Keough is a co-author – thanks to Presley’s recorded soundtracks, the work was completed posthumously. Keough will also set the book to music as an audio book.
Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, died on January 12, 2023, just hours after being rushed to a Los Angeles hospital in cardiac arrest. The reason for this was a small intestinal obstruction that was related to weight loss surgery that had been performed years earlier. She was 54 years old.
Lisa Marie Presley “learning to love”
The memoir will be published by Random House on October 15th. The book’s description: “Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley was never truly understood…until now. Before her death in 2023, she spent years crafting a raw, compelling, unique memoir, recording countless hours of breathtakingly vulnerable tapes that have now finally been put to paper by her daughter, Riley Keough.”
Keough said: “Few people had the opportunity to know who my mother really was, other than that she was the daughter of Elvis.” She continued: “I was lucky to have that opportunity and to work on publishing it Her autobiography was a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I’m so excited to show my mother at her most vulnerable and honest now, and I hope that readers will learn to love my mother as much as I do.”
Watch Riley Keough’s announcement on Instagram here:
After Presley’s death, Keough listened to hours of tapes her mother had made in preparation for her biography. “Riley knew it was time to hear Lisa Marie’s voice,” the publisher explained. “She listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being together up at Graceland, just the two of them, a refuge from the chaos of their lives. About Lisa Marie’s complicated relationship with her mother Priscilla. Growing up with cameras constantly clicking outside the door. Her own wild love stories and her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. About motherhood and the devastating loss of her son, Riley’s brother Benjamin Keough, to suicide.”