Start spreading the news: 78-year-old EGOT winner Liza Minnelli is writing a memoir. Because, as she puts it in a statement to People magazine, previous accounts of her wild life “didn’t get it right.”
Minnelli’s memoir, set to come out in the spring of 2026, will be written in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize winner Heidi Evans and Los Angeles Times alum Josh Getlin, with contributions from Minnelli’s longtime friend Michael Feinstein. It will chronicle her life from her early childhood in an iconic Hollywood family—she is the daughter of film director Vincente Minnelli and Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland—to her own ascent on Broadway and in Hollywood. The memoir will also chronicle more difficult parts of Minnelli’s life, including her many high-profile relationships and her well-documented struggles with substance abuse.
“Since I was old enough to put pencil to paper, people asked me to write books about my career, my life, my loves, my family,” Minnelli said. “‘Absolutely not! Tell it when I’m gone!’ was my philosophy.” Now, though, the icon said that she has had a change of heart, due to certain “unfortunate events” regarding how she’s been portrayed in recent years. Minnelli even provided examples, seemingly referencing her recent appearance presenting best picture at the Oscars with Lady Gaga in 2022, the 2024 documentary Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, and the Ryan Murphy miniseries Halston—calling them “a sabotaged appearance at the Oscars, a film with twisted half-truths,” and “a recent miniseries that just didn’t get it right,” respectively. “All made by people who didn’t know my family, and don’t really know me,” she added.
“Finally, I was mad as hell!” she continued. “Over dinner one night, I decided, it’s my own damn story…. I’m gonna share it with you because of all the love you’ve given me.”
That story will include Minnelli taking Broadway by storm at 19, becoming the youngest woman ever to win a Tony for leading actress for her performance in John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Flora, the Red Menace in 1965. Minnelli would go on to win the best-actress Oscar for another Kander and Ebb musical—the 1972 film adaptation of Cabaret, in which she starred as Berlin nightclub singer Sally Bowles. Minnelli made a name for herself on the small screen with Emmy-winning musical specials like Liza with a Z, and, in her later years, guest starring roles on shows like Arrested Development. To round out the EGOT, she was awarded a Grammy Legend Award in 1990.
Minnelli’s memoir will be published by Grand Central Publishing and include a hardcover edition, e-book, and audio book that will feature never-before-heard autobiographical recordings from the last 15 years. In a nod to “Maybe This Time,” the rousing ballad she sang in Cabaret, Minnelli said that “after incredible events and life-threatening battles…I am truly ‘Lady Peaceful, Lady Happy.’”
“Thank you all for loving me so much…being concerned about me,” she continued. “I want you to know I’m still here, still kicking ass, still loving life, and still creating. So, until this book arrives, know that I’m laughing, safe in every way, surrounded by loved ones and excited to see what’s right around the curve of life. Kids, wait ’til you hear this.”