The Princess Diarist

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2018 GRAMMY Winner for Best Spoken Word Album The Princess Diarist is Carrie Fishers intimate hilarious and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film sets of all time the first Star Wars movie. PEOPLE Magazine Best Book of Fall 2016 New York Times Bestseller When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie she was astonished to see what they had preservedplaintive love poems unbridled musings with youthful naivet and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author actress and pop-culture icon is indisputable but in 1977 Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar Harrison Ford. With these excerpts from her handwritten notebooks The Princess Diarist is Fishers intimate and revealing recollection of what happened on one of the most famous film sets of all timeand what developed behind the scenes. Fisher also ponders the joys and insanity of celebrity and the absurdity of a life spawned by Hollywood royalty only to be surpassed by her own outer-space royalty. Laugh-out-loud hilarious and endlessly quotable The Princess Diarist brims with the candor and introspection of a diary while offering shrewd insight into the type of stardom that few will ever experience.