Keith Richards is to receive the 2011 Mailer Prize for Distinguished Biography for his bestselling autobiography Life, co-written with James Fox. The award will be presented by President Bill Clinton at a benefit gala in New York on 8 November.
The Mailer Prize is distributed by the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, a non-profit organisation which celebrates the legacy of Mailer, the author of some 40 novels and one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century.
Life is currently available in paperback.
