33-year-old Billie Lourd is the daughter of Bryan Lourd and the late Carrie Fisher. Billie Lourd — the daughter of CAA CEO Bryan Lourd and late “Star Wars” legend Carrie Fisher — has inked a nearly $3 million book deal with Penguin Press, sources exclusively tell Page Six Hollywood.
The book project from the star of “Booksmart” and “American Horror Story” had multiple bidders in the US and UK. But Lourd went with Penguin since it’s home to contemporary lit legends like Zadie Smith (“White Teeth”), Ottessa Moshfegh (“Eileen”) and Elif Batuman (“The Idiot”).
Sources tell us that despite Lourd’s Hollywood heritage, the book isn’t a showbiz tell-all — but rather a “poignant, funny, larger-than-life story about the magic and heartache” of the author’s “singular upbringing.”
Lourd, 33, has 1.3 million Instagram followers and wrote about her mother’s 2016 death, as well as being a mother herself, in a heartfelt December post that drew widespread attention. Said a pal, “That distinctive, expressive voice blossoms in the book, of which she is the sole author.”
Her mother’s books included “Postcards from the Edge” and “Wishful Drinking.”
Lourd has two kids with husband Austin Rydell. She also wrote of her father in December: “Watching my dad with my kids is one of the greatest joys I’ve ever known. The kind of joy that makes your face hurt because you can’t stop smiling, the kind of joy that makes you feel like your life is a movie you thought only existed in movies. But then you take a step back and realize that it’s better than any movie could ever be.”
In the UK, the book sold to Robyn Drury at Penguin’s Ebury who published Belle Burden‘s “Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage,” among other top tomes.
Lourd was repped in the deal by… CAA, natch.
