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Kidnapping survivor Michelle Knight writing second book

Kidnapping survivor Michelle Knight writing second book

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this June 26, 2014, file photo, Michelle Knight smiles during an interview in Cleveland. Knight, held captive and tortured for more than a decade in a Cleveland home, is writing a follow-up to her best-selling memoir about her ordeal. Photo: AP

NEW YORK: Michelle Knight, one of three survivors from being kidnapped and held for years in a Cleveland house, is writing a follow-up to her best-selling memoir about her ordeal. Weinstein Books told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it will publish Knight’s “Life After Darkness: My Journey to Happiness.” The book is scheduled for May 2018, the fifth anniversary of her rescue, and will be a story of “life filled with hope after suffering deep tragedy.” Knight was kidnapped in 2002 by Ariel Castro and kept in brutal captivity for more than a decade. Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were later abducted by Castro and kept in the same house. Knight’s best-selling “Finding Me” came out in 2014. Berry and DeJesus collaborated on a separate memoir, “Hope,” published in 2015.