The Princess Diarist

By: Carrie Fisher

Published November 24th 2016 by Bantam Press (first published October 18th 2016)

Category: Biography

Pages: 257 pages

ISBN: 9780593077573

Description:
The Princess Diarist is Carrie FisherÕs intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the first Star Wars movie.

When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preservedÑplaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivetŽ, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a (sort-of) regular teenager.

With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks, The Princess Diarist is FisherÕs intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all timeÑand what developed behind the scenes. And today, as she reprises her most iconic role for the latest Star Wars trilogy, Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity, and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty, only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable, The Princess Diarist brims with the candour and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.