Former President Bill Clinton is writing a memoir about his life after two terms in office.
Knopf will publish Clinton’s Citizen: My Life After the White House this fall, the press announced in a news release. In the book, Knopf says, Clinton “discusses his triumphs and tribulations, set against a backdrop of historic events both at home and abroad.”
Clinton, who had been the Democratic governor of Arkansas, served as president from 1993 to 2001, surviving an impeachment trial in 1999 related to his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
After leaving office, he founded the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit group that works to fight the climate crisis and improve public health, among other goals, and has routinely campaigned for Democratic political candidates.
He has also written several books, including an earlier memoir, My Life, and two thrillers co-authored with James Patterson, The President Is Missing and The President’s Daughter.
Citizen, Knopf says, “offers a front-row, first-person chronicle of Clinton’s post-presidential years and the most crucial events of the 21st century, including: the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, the elections of 2008 and 2016, COVID-19, the ongoing charitable work of the Clinton Foundation, the January 6th insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our time.”
“Citizen is the story of my twenty-three-plus years since leaving the White House, told largely through the stories of other people who changed my life as I tried to help change theirs, of those who supported me, including those I loved and lost, and of the mistakes I made along the way,” Clinton said in a statement.
Citizen is slated for publication on Nov. 19.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
