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An upcoming biography on promises to 'reveal the private sides' of the First Lady and could dredge up uncomfortable parts of her past. 
The book has been 'deeply reported' by two veteran journalists.   
It could cause discomfort to the First Family if it dives into her early life, including her first marriage to Bill Stevenson, who has claimed stole his wife. 
The risk of embarrassing material appearing in the book is heightened by the fact that two highly respected journalists are writing it - Julie Pace and Darlene Superville, both reporters with the Associated Press. 
A spokeswoman for the publisher Little Brown said that the First Lady 'participated in interviews for the book' and confirmed that her 'early life is covered.'
A new book Jill: A Biography of the First Lady is due out in April and promises to 'reveal the private sides' of the First Lady
It could cause discomfort for the First Family if the book dives into Jill's early life, including her first marriage to Bill Stevenson, who claims Joe stole his wife 
The book, due out in April, will cover Biden's 'earliest days' of dating the President while he was still recovering from the death of his first wife Neilia Hunter, who died in 1972.

Joe and Jill married in 1977. 
The biography will detail the then-Jill Jacobs's relationship with Biden while he was a Senator and her 'embrace' of his sons, Beau, who died in 2015, and Hunter.
'Jill: A Biography of the First Lady' is due out in April
The book describes Biden's role in her husband's life when he became Barack Obama's Vice President in 2008 and his eventual rise to the presidency on the third attempt.
Little Brown claims: 'In this deeply reported biography, Julie Pace and Darlene Superville reveal some of the private sides of Jill Biden. We come to see her particular blend of grit and hope, which holds the Biden family together through tragedy and good fortune alike.'
What is not clear is how much the book will delve into the darker periods and scandals that have bedeviled the Biden clan.
Among them is the claim by Bill Stevenson, Jill's first husband, that the First Couple are lying about the beginnings of their relationship.
He told in 2020 that the story goes back to when he and Jill were living in Wilmington, Delaware, and working on then-New Castle County Councilman Joe Biden's first campaign for the U.S.

Senate in 1972.
At the time Biden was married to Neilia, who died along with their one-year-old daughter Naomi in a December 18 1972 car crash — after Biden won the election, but before he had taken his seat in Washington. 
Jill's first husband Bill Stevenson says the First Couple are lying about the beginnings of their relationship
 The book will cover Biden's 'earliest days' of dating the President while he was still recovering from the death of his first wife Neilia Hunter, who died in 1972.

The family is pictured in 1972 before Neilia and one-year-old Naomi's deaths
Stevenson, a music promoter who ran a club called The Stone Balloon in Newark, Delaware, said he first suspected Biden and his wife were having an affair in August 1974.
He was 26 at the time, Jill was 23 and Joe was 31.
He said: 'I know exactly when it was. Bruce Springsteen was going to play at The Stone Balloon and I had to go to Northern New Jersey to pay him in advance.
'I asked Jill to go with me and she said no — she had things to do, www.askmap.net she had to look after Joe's kids, Beau and Hunter.
'It was kind of a big deal to go meet Springsteen. I had no idea she and Joe were that kind of friendly.
'Then one of her best friends told me she thought Joe and Jill were getting a little too close.

I was surprised that she came to me.'
That October, Stevenson says, he discovered the truth and asked Jill to move out.
He said: 'Her father was begging me to take her back when he found out what was going on. He asked me to give her a second chance, but I wasn't interested.
Hunter is seen sleeping with a crackpipe in his mouth at the height of his drug addiction 
'I considered Joe a friend.

I'm not surprised he fell in love with Jill. Everyone who meets Jill falls in love with her immediately. It's hard not to.'  
But in the Bidens version of their love story, Joe saw a picture of Jill in March 1975 — after her marriage had crashed.
She was in an advertisement for local parks that he saw while passing through Wilmington Airport with his brother Frank.

He told Frank that was the kind of girl he would like to date and Frank said: 'Why don't you then? I know her,' and passed on her number.
In her 2019 autobiography Where The Light Enters, Jill wrote that Joe called her and asked her out.
She said she already had a date, but he persisted because he was only in town for one night and she relented.
They went to Philadelphia to see the French movie, A Man And A Woman, ironically about a widowed man falling in love, and then went out to dinner.
Despite him saying he was only in town for a single night, the couple went out the next two nights as well, she wrote.
told a slightly different story.

It said he didn't know his date was the 'drop-dead gorgeous' woman he had been admiring earlier until he picked her up.
Among the other tricky subjects which could come up in the new biography are Hunter Biden's battles with drug addiction, his business dealings in China and Ukraine and his efforts to drum up business using his family's name.
The book may also deal with allegations about inappropriate touching made against Joe Biden.
Among them was a claim from Tara Reade, who alleged that the President forced her up against the wall of his Senate office in 1993 and penetrated her with his fingers.
Joe Biden strongly denied the claim.
The risk of embarrassing material appearing in the book is heightened by the fact two highly respected journalists are writing it - Julie Pace and Darlene Superville, both reporters with the Associated Press
Author Julie Pace is a former Washington DC bureau chief for the Associated Press and is now the organization's executive editor.
Darlene Superville covers the White House for the AP and has covered politics for it for 30 years, including the Trump and Obama administrations.
The book cover features a photo of Jill Biden in a white dress which appears to have been taken on the evening of her husband's inauguration in January 2021.
According to publisher Little Brown, the book will tell the 'inspiring life of First Lady Jill Biden'.
The publicity material notes that Jill Biden has been described as Joe Biden's 'greatest political asset.'
Little Brown notes that Biden 'broke barriers' as the First Lady to hold a paying job outside the White House as a teacher.
The publisher states: 'Like many women of her generation, Jill holds her commitments as wife, mother, and grandmother at the center of her life.
'Jill is the story of this extraordinary, ordinary American woman'.