Cash’s love letters to be published
The Johnny Cash revival continues with word this week that his first wife, Vivian Liberto Distin, had written a book about their marriage that bears a similar title to the recent Cash film biography starring Joaquin Phoenix.
“I Walked the Line” is slated to arrive Valentine’s Day 2007, according to Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster. Distin, who died last year, wrote the book with Ann Sharpsteen. Kathy Cash, one of Johnny and Vivian’s daughters, said her mother visited her father in 2003 and got his blessing to do the project. The couple divorced in 1966 after 13 years.
The book is based on thousands of letters exchanged by the couple before their marriage while he was overseas with the Air Force, Sharpsteen said.
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