CanLit icon Margaret Atwood is releasing a new book of nonfiction – this one an autobiography – later this year.

The Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts will be published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart on Nov. 4, with simultaneous publication in the U.S. by Doubleday and in the U.K. by Chatto & Windus.

“I sweated blood over this book—there was too much life to stuff in, and if I’d died at 25 like John Keats, it could have been shorter—but I also laughed a lot,” Atwood said in a press release. “A memoir is what you can remember, and you remember mostly stupid things, catastrophes, revenges, and times of political horror, so I put those in—but I also added moments of joy, and surprising events and, of course, the books. I hope you’ll have as much fun reading Book of Lives as I did writing it.”

The book is described as covering Atwood’s life, from her sometimes isolated childhood in which she spent most of each year in the forest of northern Quebec with her independent parents, through to the moments in her life when she wrote some of her best-known works, such as Cat’s Eye and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Atwood is a two-time winner of the Booker Prize and has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and essays.