Billy Joel‘s one-time co-author Fred Schruers is reportedly writing a biography of Joel for Crown. Newsday reports Joel saying in a statement, “Fred Schruers is free to write whatever kind of book he wants based on the firsthand information he gathered during the time he spent with me.” Crown did not reply to a query for confirmation yet. In 2011 Billy Joel cancelled his planned memoir with HarperCollins THE BOOK OF JOEL about two months before publication, saying, “It took working on writing a book to make me realize that I’m not all that interested in talking about the past, […]