U2songs: The Crystal Ball: 2020 and Beyond
Bono is also putting the finishes on his autobiography, which is being published by Penguin. It looks like the book is nearing completion and should be available soon.
The book has been in the works for some time with the deal to write the book being secured in 2017 and offered to a small group of publishers at the time according to reports in the Irish press.
Last year it was said that a final manuscript was expected in the middle of 2019 by Penguin. And at that time it was expected that it would take a number of months to finish editing and get it ready to go to press.
If it was turned in at the expected mid-year point last year, then it could potentially arrive in 2020.
Two well known friends of Bono’s have commented on it in late 2019, with Salman Rushdie telling Brendan O’Connor on RTE, that Bono “is good at everything. Why wouldn’t he be good at this?” and Elton John also claiming that he hasn’t given Bono any writing tips, in an interview shortly after John’s own autobiography was published.