Sean Connery to Release Memoir

Sean Connery has written his memoirs but they won't be released until this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival, according to the BBC. The launch will be a world exclusive and will be at the end of the two-week festival.

Connery and his literary collaborator, Murray Grigor, are to discuss the book at the festival on August 25, organizers told Reuters. The Scottish nationalist has sworn not to live in his country until it is independent and has rightfully called his memoirs Being a Scot.

The festival is celebrating its 25th Anniversary while the Scot is going to be celebrating his 78th birthday. Director Catherine Lockerbie told Reuters that she's had an eye on Connery's autobiography through its various incarnations. Reuters says Connery was a milk delivery boy, before he started modeling at the College of Art, before he hit the big time and became the quintessential James Bond.

This encarnation of the festival will be its largest in history and is to have a record 800 authors as well as 750 events, reported the BBC. It will include Sir Salman Rushdie, Louis de Bernieres, Margaret Atwood, Alan Sillitoe and Hanif Kureishi, reported the BBC. Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond will speak at a lecture and the captured BBC reporter, Alan Johnston, will recount his days of captivity in Gaza.