David Lynch is writing a memoir: Will it reveal what Dennis Hopper was inhaling in ‘Blue Velvet’?

Fans of surrealist filmmaker David Lynch were delighted when it was announced that his series “Twin Peaks” would be returning to television. Now they have something else to look forward to: The director is co-writing a hybrid memoir-biography about his long, unusual career.

Grand Central Publishing is scheduled to release “Life & Work,” co-written by Lynch and Kristine McKenna, in 2017. The book will combine passages by Lynch writing about his own life with biographical sections about the filmmaker by McKenna.

In a news release, Lynch said, “There’s a lot of [nonsense] out there about me, in books and all over the Internet. I want to get all the right information in one place, so if someone wants to know something, they can find it here.”

Perhaps the book will definitively answer some of the enduring questions about Lynch’s work. What was Dennis Hopper inhaling from that tank in “Blue Velvet”? Where did the idea for the backward-masking in the famous “Twin Peaks” dream sequence come from? What, exactly, was the creature-slash-baby in “Eraserhead”? How many times do you have to watch “Mulholland Drive” to figure it out? And what was he thinking when he cast Sting in “Dune”?

Grand Central said McKenna’s “biographical sections will be based on her new interviews with approximately 90 of Lynch’s friends, ex-wives, family members, actors, agents, musicians and collaborators in various fields, all interwoven into the story of Lynch’s life as a director of legendary films. David Lynch will read these remembrances and respond -- essentially riffing on his own life.”

Lynch gained critical acclaim for his first film, “Eraserhead,” in 1977. Since then, he’s directed several cult classic movies including “The Elephant Man,” “Blue Velvet,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” and “Mulholland Drive.”

His films have mostly been critical favorites, with the exception of “Dune,” his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel. The film was a box-office failure and was savaged by critics. His most recent movie, “Inland Empire,” was released in 2006.

“Life & Work” won’t be the first book by Lynch. The director wrote a 2006 book called “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity,” about what he’s learned through his practice of Transcendental Meditation, a meditation technique he’s practiced for decades.

Meditation has brought Lynch into the public eye as something other than an iconoclastic film director with a knack for the disturbing and surreal. His nonprofit, the David Lynch Foundation, brings meditation to at-risk populations, including teaching classes in under-served schools.