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Katie Couric Writes Advice Book
by Jean Bentley, posted Feb 24th 2011 11:35AM
If Katie Couric decides not to continue as anchor of 'The CBS Evening News' after her contract expires in June, she'll have a new career to fall back on: author.Random House will publish an advice book compiled by Couric over the past year called 'The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives,' The New York Times reports. The news anchor said she was inspired to write the book, which comes out on April 12, after speaking at the Case-Western Reserve University graduation ceremony last May.
Couric told the Times she wanted to "get 22-year-olds to think about their future possibilities," so she compiled essays and poems from people like Sheryl Crow, 'Modern Family' star Eric Stonestreet, Chelsea Handler, Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and more.
"I know there are a lot of books out there with different pieces of advice, but I don't know if there is anything quite like this out there," Couric told the Times.
Couric wrote the introduction to the book and to each section in the compilation, whose proceeds will be donated to Scholarship America, but she said she doesn't see herself as the author.
"I don't really consider this my book," she said. "It's a collection, and I'm sort of the overseer. ... I hope one day I will have the time and the self-discipline to write a book, because I think my life has been far more interesting than I ever anticipated and certainly has had all sorts of good and bad things transpire."
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