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The comedian Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show.”Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times

You’re not really a late-night satirist until you’ve parlayed your television gig into a lucrative book deal, and now Trevor Noah can say that he is truly a member of the club.

Mr. Noah, who in September succeeded Jon Stewart as the host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, will follow in the footsteps of his predecessor (who contributed to best-sellers like “America (The Book)”) by writing a memoir about his youth in South Africa.

The Spiegel & Grau imprint of Random House said it had acquired the book from Mr. Noah, 31, who is the son of a white father and a black mother. It will chronicle his time growing up during “the last gasps of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that came with its demise,” according to a news release.

The publisher said in its statement that the as-yet-untitled memoir would be published in November and contain a series of essays by Mr. Noah that are comic and poignant, “whether he’s subsisting on caterpillars during months of extreme poverty or making comically hapless attempts at teenage romance, from the time he was thrown in jail to the time he was thrown from a speeding car driven by murderous gangsters.”

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though The Associated Press reported that it was worth more than $3 million.

Jan 27th, 2016, 4:15 pm

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Born a Crime

by Trevor Noah

Born to a white father and a black mother in apartheid-era South Africa, Noah's very existence was evidence of a crime. In 18 heartfelt, often comic, personal essays, The Daily Show host recounts his tumultuous early life. Katelyn says, "Noah shares perceptive, intelligent, and compulsively readable stories about his childhood and race in South Africa during and post-apartheid. This is an important book to read and apply to discussions of race in America today. One of the best books I've read all year."