According to UK based media outlet, New Music Express (NME), Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, is set to publish his autobiography entitled Eminem: The Way I Am
via Orion Books this October. In addition to Eminem’s written
introduction and narrative, the book will also feature never before
published photographs, as well as the rapper’s journal notes, hand-drawn sketches and lyrics.

“Everyone has their own take on Eminem,” Ian Preece of
Orion Books said via statement. “Because of where he is from, people
think they know where he is at, what kind of person he really is. This
book cuts through all that and gets to the source. It has an edge.
It’ll be one of the books of the year.”

The book follows on the heels of My Son Marshall, My Son Eminem, a tell-all published by Eminem’s mother Debbie Nelson.
In that book, which is already available in the UK, Nelson claims her
son has battled depression for years. Nelson’s troubled relationship
with her son has been documented in his music as well as in legal actions, thanks to a $7 million defamation suit Nelson once filed.

Eminem: The Way I Am is expected to hit bookstore shelves on October 16th, 2008.