Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris will publish a memoir about her 2024 campaign for the presidency, her publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced on Thursday.
The memoir, titled “107 Days,” will be released on Sept. 23, and will give Harris’s inside account of her breakneck campaign for the White House after former President Joe Biden withdrew amid questions about his age and mental and physical fitness for office.
Harris announced the book in a video posted on social media where she described how, in the wake of losing the 2024 election to Donald Trump, she consulted her family, friends and team about what happened during “the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.” She recorded her thoughts and recollections in a journal that became the basis for the memoir.
“Since leaving office, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on those days,” she said. “I believe there’s value in sharing what I saw, what I learned and what I know it will take to move forward.”
The memoir announcement comes shortly after Harris revealed that she will not run for governor of California next year after months of speculation that she would seek the office — news that reanimated questions about what Harris will do in the coming years and if she will run for president or seek another public office again.
The book will be focused on the campaign, not her time as vice president. Harris has written previously about her upbringing and her early political career as a U.S. senator and attorney general of California in her 2019 memoir, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.”
Harris’s book deal announcement comes on the heels of news that Biden sold his memoir to Little, Brown for a reported $10 million. Simon & Schuster — which has published a number of memoirs by prominent politicians from across the political spectrum, including Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Mike Pence — did not reveal the financial terms for Harris’s memoir, which was represented by Creative Artists Agency.
In a statement, Jonathan Karp, the chief executive of Simon & Schuster, called Harris’s memoir an “eyewitness contribution to history and an extraordinary story.”
“‘107 Days’ captures the drama of running for president better than just about anything I’ve read,” Karp said.
Alexandra Alter writes about books, publishing and the literary world for The Times.
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