Report: Dugard expected to finish book this year
By Christina Mendonsa, News 10
SACRAMENTO — Jaycee Dugard spent last summer camping with family, the fall taking daytrips with her daughters, and this winter, writing her unique and painful memoirs.
The woman held captive for 18 years is now living the life she dreamed of in childhood dairies kept during her years in the Garrido’s Antioch backyard. Dugard, her daughters and mother are renting a four-bedroom house on a tree-lined street in a Northern California neighborhood. Others living on the same street know who they are and are very protective of them.
As the case against Dugard’s alleged kidnappers, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, drags on, Jaycee is putting the finishing touches on a book due out later this year. Simon & Schuster has no date for the release but the company’s head of publishing has read excerpts.
“I was moved and inspired by the raw power of Jaycee Dugard’s voice, her strength and her resilience,” said Jonathan Karp.
Jonathan Glatt wrote the first book about the Dugard kidnapping titled, “Lost And Found.” Glatt digs deeply into the events surrounding Dugard’s kidnapping in 1991 and Phillip Garrido’s early life as a bass player in a Lake Tahoe-based band called Rock Creek.