Rushdie writing memoir of years in hiding

Salman Rushdie is working on a memoir of his years in hiding after Iran's then supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death edict against him in 1989 for writing "The Satanic Verses", deemed blasphemous to Islam.
The British author has also just published a children's book called "Luka and the Fire of Life", which he wrote for his younger son Milan, and has almost completed the screenplay for a movie version of acclaimed 1981 novel "Midnight's Children".
The 63-year-old said of the memoir that there was an "information vacuum" to fill, and that he finally felt it was time to confront a difficult period in his life.
"I'm beginning to write this memoir," Rushdie told Reuters in an interview. "I've written about ... 100 pages of book and I reckon very roughly that feels like a quarter of the story. I'm aiming, in my mind, for the end of next year (to finish it).