$600,000 advance offered for Patti Hearst account

By With Analysis from Monitor Correspondents Around the World; Edited by Clara Germani

September 3, 1981

San Francisco

Patti Hearst Shaw has been offered a $600,000 literary advance to write about her experiences from her celebrated kidnapping to her release from prison, her publisher disclosed. Doubleday plans to release the book, "Every Secret Thing," in January.