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Jay-Z memoir coming in November

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Rapper and business mogul Jay-Z is about to become an author. Publisher Spiegel & Grau will release “Decoded,” a 336-page memoir, on Nov. 16.

Unlike traditional memoirs, Rolling Stone reports, Jay-Z’s book will also include interviews with family and friends. The book was co-written by Dream Hampton, a former editor at the Source.

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According to the report, much of the material for the book was compiled three years ago, but Jay-Z was reluctant to see its release. What’s changed? Maybe Jay-Z figures that if Justin Bieber has a memoir, so can he.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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