In October 1991, Wilson's first memoir Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story was published. According to biographer Peter Ames Carlin, in addition to plagiarizing excerpts from earlier biographies, the contents of the book ranged from Wilson's castigations against his bandmates to passages that "read like depositions for their various court cases". The book prompted defamation lawsuits from Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, and his mother Audree Wilson. Following a conservatorship suit filed by Wilson's family in May 1991, Wilson and Landy's partnership was dissolved in December, with a restraining order enacted soon thereafter.
In October 1991, Wilson's first memoir Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story was published. According to biographer Peter Ames Carlin, ,in addition to plagiarizing excerpts from earlier biographies, the contents of the book ranged from Wilson's castigations against his bandmates to passages that "read like depositions for their various court cases". The book prompted defamation lawsuits from Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson and his mother Audree Wilson. Following a conservatorship suit filed by Wilson's family in May 1991, Wilson and Landy's partnership was dissolved in December, with a restraining order enacted soon thereafter.