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Dec 11 2007: Publishers Weekly reports that novelist Brandon Sanderson has been chosen to finish writing the final novel in Robert Jordan’s bestselling "Wheel of Time" fantasy series. Jordan—described by some as Tolkien’s heir—died Sept. 16 from a rare blood disease.
Dec 10 2007: The Guardian reports on Doris Lessing's moving Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech in which she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the '...
Dec 09 2007: Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, published in the UK as Children of the Revolution has won the Guardian Newspaper's first book award.
Dec 06 2007: Publishers Weekly reports that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out a settlement between freelance writers and publishers reached after a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that publishers had violated the copyright of freelance writers by using their works in ...
Dec 05 2007: The Guardian reports that Richard Leigh, author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, who unsuccessfully sued for plagiarism over themes in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, has died. He was 64.
Dec 04 2007: The Sacramento Bee reports that Sacramento based author William T Vollman (who won a National Book Award two years ago) and Baltimore-based Madison Smartt Bell have both won Strauss Living awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award, paid in five ...
Dec 03 2007: The Associated Press reports that a single manuscript page from a love story written by Napoleon Bonaparte sold at auction in France on Sunday for $35,400. The page in question was the final draft of Napoleon's 1795 short novel "Clisson and Eugenie," only 22 pages in ...
Dec 01 2007: Many reporters and bloggers have pitched in their opinions on Amazon's Kindle bookreader ((named to convey the "igniting" of knowledge, according to Amazon) in the week since it launched, including Walter Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal (http://ptech.allthingsd.com...
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