The knuckleball pitcher R. A. Dickey is putting together a historic season for the Mets. He's also been busy building a literary career. Mr. Dickey, the author of an acclaimed memoir, has now signed a deal to publish three children's books with Dial, an imprint of the publisher Penguin.
The first book, to appear in fall 2013, will be an adaptation of his memoir “Wherever I Wind Up,†which chronicles Mr. Dickey's unorthodox athletic career and sensitive subjects including the trauma of sexual abuse he suffered as a child.
That will be followed by two picture books. The first, slated for spring 2014, will be titled “Knuckleball Ned.†According to the publisher, the book, “a comic story of s taying true to yourself through adversity,†is in the early stages and still awaiting an illustrator. The adaptation of Mr. Dickey's memoir will be aimed at 8- to 12-year-old readers, according to Dial, and it's “too soon to specify how much of his story†Mr. Dickey will tell in the new version.
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