Mar 05 2020
Dozens of Hachette employees staged a walkout of its New York City offices on Thursday in protest against the company’s decision to publish Woody Allen’s autobiography.
Grand Central, a Hachette imprint, announced this week it would publish the Hollywood director’s memoir on 7 April. Financial terms were not disclosed for the book, which Grand Central quietly acquired a year ago.
The 84-year-old Allen is an Oscar-winning film-maker, known for such works as Annie Hall and The Purple Rose of Cairo, and he is among the most influential comedians of his time. But allegations by his daughter Dylan Farrow that he molested her as a child in the early 1990s have effectively stalled his movie career in the US.
Update March 6: After "listening sessions" with staff members, Hachette announced they had canceled publication of Allen's memoir and would be pulping all copies that had been printed.
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