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# The Best News You'll Read All Day: Cary Elwes is Writing a _Princess Bride_ Memoir

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Nov 24, 2013 5:49 PM UTC

![25th Anniversary Screening &amp; Cast Reunion Of "The Princess Bride" -  50th New York Film Festival](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta26700bf156f25bc/698a8de4c9e94178fc12301f/153285748.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 02: Cary Elwes and Robin Wright attend the 25th anniversary screening & cast reunion of "The Princess Bride" during the 50th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 2, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 02: Cary Elwes and Robin Wright attend the 25th anniversary screening & cast reunion of "The Princess Bride" during the 50th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 2, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)Getty Images—2012 Getty Images

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Nov 24, 2013 5:49 PM UTC

Stop everything you’re doing and clear your schedule next fall, when actor Cary Elwes plans to publish a memoir on the making of _The Princess Bride._

The dapper actor who played farm boy Westley in one of the “greatest love stories” ever told will give a behind the scenes look in _As You Wish: Tales From The Princess Bride_, to be published fall 2014.

The book will include interviews with Robin Wright, who plays his love interest Princess Buttercup, and the rest of the characters from the cult classic including Christopher Guest, Billy Crystal and Chris Sarandon. Director Rob Reiner will contribute to the book’s forward. 

\[[The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/cary-elwes-pen-princess-bride-659190)\]

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