Supreme Court justices revealed book-related earnings in their 2024 financial reports, which were released yesterday. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson earned $2,068,750 advances for her memoir Lovely One (Random House). In 2023, when she signed the deal, she reported advances of $893,750. (If those payments are Justice Sonia Sotomayor published a memoir in 2014 and has since written four children’s books, with another, JUST SHINE! (Philomel), forthcoming in September. Last year she earned more than $130,000 in advances and royalties. Justice Neil Gorsuch disclosed royalties of about $250,000. Last year he published Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law (Harper) […]
