Mad Men character gets autobiographical treatment

The charismatic, fictional head of the advertising company depicted in the hit series Mad Men is about to get his own autobiography in a move that has real life imitating art.

Actor John Slattery plays the boozing, womanizing Roger Sterling, who in the series this season was also writing his own autobiography.

Now past its fourth season, the acclaimed series about the advertising world of New York in the 1960s has garnered 13 Emmys.

Mad Men creator Matt Weiner has penned the Slattery book, which will be on the shelves in November with Slattery's face gracing the cover.

U.S. publisher Grove/Atlantic promises the character's "pithy comments and observations amount to a unique window on the advertising world as well as a commentary on life in New York City in the middle of the 20th century."

"It's got the kind of sensibility and texture of a good social novel," noted publisher Morgan Entrekin to New York magazine.

The publishing house said Sterling's Gold: Wit and Wisdom of an Ad Man will contain many Sterling one-liners, including: "Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons and eventually they hit you in the face."

Some of the chapters are titled "Things to Say to Creatives" and "On the Art of Seduction and what to say to close the deal."