{"id":37246,"date":"2026-11-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=37246"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:09:46","slug":"a-secret-dolly-parton-memoir-sold-for-13-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/11\/a-secret-dolly-parton-memoir-sold-for-13-million\/","title":{"rendered":"A Secret Dolly Parton Memoir Sold For $13 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dolly Parton&#8217;s<\/strong> unpublished memoir has reportedly sold for $13 million to Grand Central Publishing following a fierce bidding war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Literary agency Folio, which previously handled her book <em>Songteller: My Life in Lyrics<\/em>, brokered the deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources say the opening bid was $12 million before Grand Central Publishing topped it with the winning offer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It remains unclear what the memoir will cover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parton&#8217;s longtime manager, Danny Nozell, confirmed she &#8220;worked up until the day she died,&#8221; with numerous projects planned for release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country music legend passed away on August 25 at the age of 80.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DfFtThcj2CK\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton&#8217;s unpublished memoir has reportedly sold for $13 million to Grand Central Publishing following a fierce bidding war. Literary agency Folio, which previously handled her book Songteller: My Life in Lyrics, brokered the deal. Sources say the opening bid was $12 million before Grand Central Publishing topped it with the winning offer. It remains","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7674,3011,102,7868,7869,278],"class_list":["post-37246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-danny-nozell","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-folio","tag-grand-central-publishing","tag-memoir"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-08 22:40:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/11\/a-secret-dolly-parton-memoir-sold-for-13-million\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37247,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37246\/revisions\/37247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}