The book will be published through Maria Shriver’s Penguin Random House imprint, the Open Field.
Eric Dane is publishing a memoir about living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS, the Associated Press reports. The book will hit shelves in 2026.
The 53-year-old Grey’s Anatomy alum’s memoir, titled Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments, will be released by the Open Field, Maria Shriver’s imprint through Penguin Random House.
“I wake up every morning, and I’m immediately reminded that this is real — this illness, this challenge, and that’s exactly why I’m writing this book,” Dane said in a statement provided by Open Field to the AP. “I want to capture the moments that shaped me — the beautiful days, the hard ones, the ones I never took for granted — so that, if nothing else, people who read it will remember what it means to live with heart.”
The actor continued, writing, “If sharing this helps someone find meaning in their own days, then my story is worth telling.”
Shriver said in a statement that Dane intended to write the book to make his daughters, whom he has with estranged wife Rebecca Gayheart, “proud.” She notes the book “will also help people understand what ALS is and isn’t, what happens to someone when they get it, and how we can all be compassionate partners to people suffering with neurological conditions such as this.”
The Euphoria star went public with his ALS diagnosis in a statement to People in April. At the time, Dane said he was returning to the set of the third season of the long-delayed HBO series, which is set to air in April 2026.
ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that leads to muscle control issues and eventual muscle atrophy, including in the muscles that control breathing. According to the Mayo Clinic, half of all people with ALS die within 14 to 18 months of diagnosis, though some people with the disease live 10 years or longer.
In a June interview with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, Dane spoke about his early symptoms, which included weakness in his right hand. He told Sawyer that now the right side of his body has “stopped working.”
Dane also spoke about his emotions around the illness. “I’m angry because, you know, my father was taken from me when I was young, and now … there’s a very good chance I’m going to be taken from my girls while they’re very young,” Dane said, referring to his father, who died from a gunshot wound when Dane was 7 years old. “I mean really, at the end of the day, all I want to do is spend time with my family and work a little bit if I can.”