Hunter Biden has written a memoir that is set to hit bookshelves this spring, only a few months after his father, President Biden, took office.
Beautiful Things is being published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and has a release date of April 6. The news was reported Thursday, which is also Hunter Biden’s 51st birthday. No financial details about the book deal were disclosed.
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The book will center on Biden’s struggle with addiction. “I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Biden says in the book.
A copy of the book, which the younger Biden wrote with author and journalist Drew Jubera, was given to a handful of authors, including Stephen King, Dave Eggers, and Anne Lamott.
“In his harrowing and compulsively readable memoir, Hunter Biden proves again that anybody — even the son of a United States President — can take a ride on the pink horse down nightmare alley,” King writes in his blurb of the book. “Biden remembers it all and tells it all with a bravery that is both heartbreaking and quite gorgeous. He starts with a question: Where’s Hunter? The answer is he’s in this book, the good, the bad, and the beautiful.”
President Biden has publicly supported and praised his son for overcoming his addiction and did so during the presidential campaign.
“My son, like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home, had a drug problem,” the then-Democratic candidate said during one of the presidential debates. “He’s overtaken it. He’s fixed it. He’s worked on it, and I’m proud of him. I’m proud of my son.”
Hunter Biden, whose foreign business dealings got wrapped into former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, is under a federal tax investigation.
He is not the first child of the sitting president to write a book. Donald Trump Jr.released two books, Triggered and Liberal Privilege, during his father’s administration.
