Author will sign books on Struthers

Author will sign books on Struthers

STRUTHERS

Author Patricia Beach will sell and autograph both of her books about the city of Struthers at 5 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Struthers Historical Society, 50 Terrace St.

The titles are “Struthers” and “Struthers Revisited.”

Beach also will visit Struthers for the Police Department Car Show on Sept. 13 at the Fifth Street Plaza.

Elvis’ private nurse to release book

JACKSON, Tenn.

A Tennessee woman who was Elvis Presley’s private nurse is releasing a book about her life around the music legend and his family.

The Jackson Sun reports Letetia Henley Kirk, 73, lived on the grounds of Graceland — Presley’s Memphis home — with her husband and two young daughters from 1972 to 1983 and often traveled with Presley on tour.

Her book, titled “Taking Care of Elvis – Memories with Elvis as His Private Nurse and Friend,” is a collection of short stories.

McBride working on book about Brown

NEW YORK

National Book Award winner James McBride is returning to nonfiction for his next project.

The author of “The Good Lord Bird” has a deal with Spiegel & Grau for a book about the late James Brown. “Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown” is tentatively scheduled for March 2016.

According to the publisher, “Kill ‘Em and Leave” will trace the “true roots” of Brown and will include interviews with sources who “have never spoken on the record before.”

Utecht writing book about head trauma

NEW YORK

Ben Utecht, the former NFL tight end who became a leading advocate for players suffering from head trauma, is working on a memoir.

Utecht has a six-figure deal with the Simon & Schuster imprint Howard Books.

Ultrecht’s book, “Counting the Days Until My Mind Slips Away,” is scheduled to come out in the fall of 2016.

He sustained numerous concussions as a player and struggles with severe memory loss. Utecht, 34, earned a Super Bowl ring in 2006 with the Indianapolis Colts, but left the NFL in 2009 after an injury settlement with the Cincinnati Bengals.

He became a spokesman for the American Academy of Neurology and testified last year before Congress.

Noonan anthology to be published in Nov.

NEW YORK

An anthology of writings by Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal columnist and former White House speech writer, is coming out in November.

Noonan’s “The Time of Our Lives” will be released by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing that announced the book last week. Noonan has written an introduction to “The Time of Our Lives,” which will highlight her work from the past 35 years.

Noonan said the book includes the work that stays with her and has the same effect as when she “was writing it.”

Noonan is known for such speeches as President Ronald Reagan’s address after the Challenger explosion and for coining the expression “a kinder, gentler nation” for George H.W. Bush’s 1988 presidential run.

Staff/wire reports