Riley Keough to finish Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir after putting off mother’s request when she was alive

Almost a year to the day of Lisa Marie Presley’s death, her daughter Riley Keough has announced plans to publish her posthumous memoir.

“I’m honored to help put my mother’s book out for her,” Keough wrote in a Thursday Instagram post, sharing a childhood photo of herself and Presley. EW has learned that the book will hit shelves on Oct. 15, 2024.

The upcoming autobiography has been long in the making. Prior to her death on Jan. 12 2023, Presley asked her daughter to help finish her long-gestating memoir. The project was put off to a later date until her unexpected death prompted Keough to revisit the “countless hours of tape” that her mother recorded, telling her life story. The final product will comprise mostly of her mother’s words, with Keough filling in the blanks from her own memory and those closest to her mother.

“Few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was, other than being Elvis’s daughter,” Keough said in the statement. “I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one.”

She adds, “I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.” 

The book will feature stories including Presley’s memories of Elvis, delve into her complicated relationship with her mother Priscilla, and explore aspects of her later life, including motherhood, the loss of her son, and marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.

Presley was hospitalized following an apparent cardiac arrest on Jan. 12, 2023 and died hours later. An autopsy later determined her cause of death was due to be complications of a small bowel obstruction.

Per Random House, the book’s publisher, her memoir will “lift the veil on one of America’s most storied families, sharing intimate memories of Lisa Marie’s remarkable, tumultuous life while offering a poignant exploration of the bonds between a mother and daughter.”

Sanyu Dillon, president of the Random House Group, adds, “Lisa Marie led a truly singular life, and we know this book, brought to publication with the guidance of her daughter, will be a beautiful legacy not only for her children but for the generations of people who have loved her.”

The audiobook edition will be read by Keough and feature "never-before-heard recollections" in Lisa Marie’s own voice. The still-untitled book will hit shelves on Oct. 15.

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