Dying Professor’s Last Lecture Now a Book

Randy Pausch, a 47-year-old college professor whose “last lecture” became an Internet sensation, will have a new platform to share his story: a book. The Last Lecture is now being published by Hyperion, after a bidding war that reportedly resulted in a $6.7 million deal. In Sept. 2006, Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In August 2007, the cancer had spread, and Pausch was given 6 months to live. A month after learning the cancer was terminal, Pausch gave his now-famous talk in a packed auditorium. “The lecture wasn’t about dying, it’s about living,” says Pausch, who is a married father of 3. See an abridged version of the lecture from the Oprah Winfrey show here.