It was an extraordinary reaction to a manuscript he should have been grateful for and immensely proud of."Īccording to Davies, Assange then took six weeks to edit and rewrite the draft himself, but failed to deliver any copy.
A ghost writer interviewed Assange for 50 hours, and then prepared a draft by late March. In a column published in the Guardian newspaper, Canongate exec Nick Davies explained that the company published the book despite Assange's opposition because of the quality and importance of the material, and because Canongate needed the money.įor a reported advance of $1 million, Canongate made a deal with Assange for a memoir at the end of 2010, as he fought extradition to Sweden from the comfort of a mansion in the English countryside. Now the publishing house that cut a deal with Assange last winter for an autobiography has released the book over Assange's objections, leaving the world's leaker-in-chief to object to the public disclosure of personal data that he would apparently prefer to keep private.Ĭanongate books published "Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Autobiography" in the U.K. The colleagues with whom he started WikiLeaks, meanwhile, have soured on him and launched their own competing clearinghouse for state secrets called OpenLeaks.
government documents to the world, accusing them of ingratitude and cowardice. He has turned on the newspapers who helped him leak U.S. 22, 2011 — - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has a history of falling out with his confederates.
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