The WikiLeaks founder founder Julian Assange’s unauthorised autobiography was released by publishers Canongate. Copies of the unauthorised autobiography of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange are placed on display for sale in a bookstore in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22 September 2011. The unauthorised autobiography was released amid heavy secrecy to stop the author from seeking an injunction to block publication.
The book is based on an early 70000-word draft of the manuscript written by Assange with the novelist Andrew O'Hagan and was shown to the publishers in March 2011.
The story focussed on instead on Assange's childhood and early adulthood in Australia, the origins of Wikileaks through the Collateral Murder video release, and the early days of the organisation's relationships with media partners including the Guardian.
Almost a third of its 339 pages is made up of an appendix of the cable releases and an afterword, and there is no index.
The focus on the passages in which Assange addresses the accusations of rape and sexual assault made by two Swedish women, for which his extradition is being sought.
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