Sally Ride biography scheduled for 2013

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NEW YORK (AP) — An authorized biography of astronaut Sally Ride, written by longtime ABC correspondent Lynn Sherr, is scheduled for publication next year.

Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday that Sherr’s book, currently untitled, will have the cooperation of Ride’s family and of her partner of 27 years, Tam O’Shaughnessy. Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died of cancer last week at age 61.

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