Look out, Naomi: Ashley’s telling it all. Ashley Judd, actress/activist/denim designer, has inked a deal to publish a memoir in cooperation with Ballantine Books, the publisher announced in a release on Tuesday. The book, Ashley’s first, will draw from more than 500 pages of journal entries chronicling the star’s childhood through her work as global ambassador for PSI/Youth AIDS and marriage to IRL driver Dario Franchetti.
“I hope that this book will be a call to action as well as a memoir,” says Judd. Ashley will collaborate on the effort with Maryanne Vollers, who contributed to Hilary Clinton’s best-selling memoir, Living History.
There will be a foreword by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. The still-untitled autobiography hits booksellers’ shelves in the spring of 2011.