Ex-Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke has book scheduled for 2015

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FILE - This Jan. 16, 2014 file photo shows outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Bernanke has an agreement with W.W. Norton & Company for a book that will cover his years at the Fed and his response to the economic crisis of 2008. Norton announced Tuesday, May 6, that the book, currently untitled, is scheduled for 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke (bur-NANG’-kee) has a book deal.

Bernanke’s agreement is with publisher W.W. Norton & Co. for a book that will cover his years at the Fed and his response to the economic crisis of 2008. Norton told The Associated Press on Tuesday the currently untitled book is scheduled for 2015.

Financial terms haven’t been disclosed for the book, the object of a multiday auction among rival publishers. Bernanke was represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, who brokered a seven-figure deal for Bernanke’s predecessor, Alan Greenspan.

Bernanke served on the Fed from 2002 until this year. He was appointed to two four-year terms as chairman. He was succeeded by Janet Yellen.

Norton president W. Drake McFeely says Bernanke has had “an unequaled perspective on the American economy since 2006.”

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