Moonwalk reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list and has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide.

[2] The first manuscript of the book was written by Robert Hilburn, and was refused by Doubleday because it lacked "juicy details".

Relatives of Doubleday employees were hired as couriers in order to deliver portions of the book from the company's head office in Manhattan to the printing plant in Fairfield, Pennsylvania.

[4] Dedicated to Fred Astaire,[4] the book discusses Jackson's show business friends, his girlfriends, his rise to fame, his appearance, and his thoughts on plastic surgery.

[1] Ken Tucker, of The New York Times, stated that if the book had been written by anyone else, it would be dismissed as "an assiduously unrevealing, frequently tedious document."

[5] Moonwalk was re-released on October 13, 2009, as a result of Michael Jackson's death, with a new foreword by Motown founder Berry Gordy and an afterword by Shaye Areheart.