At the beginning of 1960, Garland signed a contract with Random House to write her autobiography. The book was to be called "The Judy Garland Story", and would be a collaboration with Fred F. Finklehoffe. Garland was paid an advance of $35,000, and she and Finklehoffe recorded conversations about her life to be used in producing a manuscript. Garland would work on her autobiography on and off throughout the 1960s, but never completed it. Portions of her unfinished autobiography were included in the 2014 biography, "Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters" by Randy L. Schmidt.