WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she received nearly $1.2 million to write a memoir of her rise from a South Bronx housing project to the nation’s highest court.
Sotomayor reported the payment for the as-yet untitled book from Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in an annual report of personal finances, released Friday for the justice and her eight colleagues. Knopf revealed in July that Sotomayor had agreed to write the memoir, but the size of the advance had not been public.
The book will come out simultaneously in English and in Spanish, but no release date has been set. Sotomayor is the court’s first Latina justice.
Justice Clarence Thomas also received more than $1 million in advance of the publication of his book, “My Grandfather’s Son,” in 2007. The Associated Press
