Joan Rivers Confidential: The Unseen Scrapbooks, Joke Cards, Personal Files, and Photos of a Very Funny Woman Who Kept Everything

By Melissa Rivers and Scott Currie

“A gorgeous scrapbook of the late icon’s life—featuring clippings, letters, and dozens of finely honed quips from her famous-joke files.” —Vanity Fair

Joan Rivers is an enduring icon of the twentieth century, and her wildly popular humor has appealed to generations of fans. With a career that began in the late 1950s, Joan kept mementos over the course of her entire working life, and Joan Rivers Confidential is a compilation of never-before-seen personal archives. Assembled by her daughter Melissa with Scott Currie, the book contains scripts and monologues, letters from famous friends, exchanges with fans, rare photographs, as well as classic and never-before-heard jokes—many simply scribbled on everything from hotel stationery to airplane boarding passes. Touching on subjects from her 50 years in show business (The Tonight Show, Las Vegas, Elizabeth Taylor, Heidi Abromowitz, the red carpet, and Fashion Police), this is a revelatory and humor-filled insider look at the popular, multitalented comedian.

“It’s easy to forget, in this era of Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, how revolutionary it was for a meticulously coiffed, nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn—born in 1933!—to get up onstage and crack jokes about hookers, the Holocaust, and her vagina. What fun it is to be reminded.” —W Magazine

“From joke cards and contracts to personal letters from pals like Nancy Reagan and Prince Charles, Rivers’ mountain of memorabilia was mostly sealed and largely unseen—until now.” —Women’s Wear Daily

“For fans, this is a gold mine. For others who are simply curious about this unstoppable force, it’s a fun, loving tribute.” —Southern Jewish Life

• Language: English
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Release date: Oct 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781683351320

Melissa Rivers

With a career spanning the past four decades, Brian Edwards has enjoyed unique success in the entertainment industry as a celebrity talent executive, producer, publicist and writer (order depends on the day). He has served as talent executive / talent producer for three Emmy Award – winning shows, and as an independent PR rep, he spearheaded the campaigns for five Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremonies to date for Joan Rivers, Donna Summer, Whoopi Goldberg, Rascal Flatts and Vanessa Williams, with ceremonies currently pending for TRIO: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, as well as Tanya Tucker and Cindy Crawford. In 2012, Brian was honored by the International Press Academy with the Satellite Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Entertainment, becoming only the third recipient of this honor in the academy’s history. I Might Have Been Queen (And Other Things I Didn’t Mention Before) is the follow-up to his autobiography, Enter Miss Thang, which ultimately became the most honored LGBT non-fiction book of 2014. As a tribute to his work with the legendary Queen of Disco, Brian was recently portrayed in the smash hit, Tony Award nominated Broadway show Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, which embarks on its’ first U.S. national tour in the fall of 2019. Connect With Miss Thang Instagram / Twitter / Facebook @EnterMissThang TheBrianEdwards.com

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