Elizabeth Smart, the girl who grabbed the nation's attention in 2002 when she was kidnapped and held captive for nine months at age 14, is planning to publish a memoir recounting her experiences.

The book will chronicle Smart's abduction and nine months in captivity as well as her surprising recovery and the creation of the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which she uses to advocate for protection of children, according to a report from The Washington Post.

Smart is now 25 years old and a senior at Brigham Young University in Utah who recently married Matthew Gilmour, a fellow Mormon missionary.

Smart will work with a co-writer, Chris Stewart, who will help to hone her account and streamline it for book form. Stewart is a congressman-elect from Utah, and he has previously written books on religious and patriotic topics.

Stewart said the book will take an "appropriate, but not salacious" look at what Smart endured during her time in captivity, and it will also show the immense growth and personal development she took from the ordeal and how she has become an agent for change in the protection of the country's children.

"She has taken a professional outlook on this and is able to talk in an impressive way about these things frankly," Stewart said. "She's not shying away from this story."

Smart told the media she wanted to wait to publish a book until after the end of the trail of her kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell, who was sentenced for the crime in March 2011 to two life sentences at a federal prison located in Arizona.

Several books have already been written about Smart's kidnapping and the national search that followed. The most revealing account, "Plain Sight: The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation," was co-written by Smart's uncle, news photographer Tom Smart. But he said his book had a completely different perspective than what Elizabeth's work will offer.

"We never talked to Elizabeth about our book," Tom Smart said. "We did not want to tell her story. We want her to tell her story."