The Steps is the title of Sylvester Stallone’s autobiography, with the memoir going on sale in September 2026. More here. If I’ve got this right, here’s a book that was originally going to be published for Christmas 2025, but has slipped back. That not withstanding, Sylvester Stallone has penned his autobiography, and it’s set to … Sylvester Stallone | Memoir arriving this month, will be “gritty”
The Steps is the title of Sylvester Stallone’s autobiography, with the memoir going on sale in September 2026. More here.
If I’ve got this right, here’s a book that was originally going to be published for Christmas 2025, but has slipped back. That not withstanding, Sylvester Stallone has penned his autobiography, and it’s set to go on sale (in the UK at least) on 29th September 2026.
Entitled The Steps, it sounds – in proper Sly style – as though he’s leaving himself wiggle room for a sequel. The Steps tells his story, from landing in New York at the back end of the 1960s, through to Rocky winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards. That leaves several decades, not least the story of the peerless Rocky IV, for a future tome.
For now though, it sounds like a meaty story anyway. The full synopsis reads…
In the fifty years since Sylvester Stallone ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum, he and those steps have become symbols of resilience and determination, and have inspired millions from all over the world to pursue their dreams. In The Steps, Stallone recounts how he pursued his own dreams. A culmination of decades of reflection, Sly shares where he came from – a difficult birth, an even more difficult childhood, years of struggle in school being misunderstood – and he explains how the real story of a successful life is built by facing, embracing and ultimately overcoming our challenges. It’s found in the distances we are willing to go and the steps we must take to get from where we are to where we want to go.
In a narrative framed between Stallone’s arrival in New York City in 1969 and the triumph of Rocky at the 1977 Academy Awards, Sly weaves a vivid and propulsive portrait of struggle, subsistence and ultimately success. He writes of his early days and later years, too, and the persistence, creativity and resilience that led not only to the creation of Rocky but to a career filled with remarkably iconic roles. The Steps is a testament to Stallone’s extraordinary life and a profound meditation on the importance of vision and willpower and hard work.
Described too as “gritty” and “heart-wrenching”, The Steps is up for preorder now. You can order yourself a copy here.
