New York City's Sonia Sotomayor to Publish Memoir Updated July 13, 2010 5:05pm

Bronx-born justice, Sonia Sotomayor, was escorted to the mound by catcher Jorge Posada to throw out the first pitch at a Yankee game against the Boston Red Sox. (Getty/Jared Wickerham)

By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Sonia Sotomayor left Manhattan last summer to sit on the nation's highest court in Washington, D.C., but she will be back in spirit in her new memoir, which will include an account of her life in New York City.

The Greenwich Village resident-turned-Supreme Court Justice signed a deal to publish her memoirs, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group announced Monday.

The book will be a coming-of-age autobiography, beginning with Sotomayor's childhood in the South Bronx, as the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants, and continuing through her 30-year career as a lawyer, judge and law professor in New York City, the publishing company said on its website.

The book, which is still untitled, will also cover the death of Sotomayor's father when she was only 9-years-old, her years at Princeton and later Yale Law School, and eventually her appointment as the first Latino member of the supreme court, Knopf said.

A release date has not yet been scheduled for the book, the publisher added.