The Princess Diarist [Hardcover]

The last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diaristis an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time, the firstStarWarsmovie.   

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the firstStar Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved—plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Before her passing, her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon was indisputable, but in 1977, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar, Harrison Ford. 

With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks,The Princess Diaristis Fisher’s intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all time—and what developed behind the scenes. 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 Diaristbrims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into one of Hollywood's most beloved stars.Praise forThe Princess Diarist
PeopleMagazine’s Best Book of Fall 2016 

“Fisher offers a thoughtful, sardonic meditation on the price of fame, cost-of-living adjustments included.”—J.D. Biersdorfer,The New York Times Book Review 

“Characteristically frank and unflinching, funny and true...The Princess Diarist is about a woman’s relationship with desire—her own, and of others’ for her—writ large, as large as Star Wars.”—Julianne Escobedl³Y