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Dec 15 2006: Eragon the movie (based on teen author Christopher Paolini's books Eragon and Eldest) opened Friday, December 15 (to generally terrible reviews), with 18-year-old unknown Edward Speleers as Eragon. Speleers has had no prior film experience, in fact his only ...
Dec 15 2006: Notorious unauthorized biographer Kitty Kelley has chosen Oprah Winfrey as the subject of her next book, publication date to be announced. Kelley's previous books include bios of Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, the Bush family and the British Royal family. ...
Dec 06 2006: The family depicted in Augusten Burrough's Running with Scissors, his 2002 memoir of a hyper-dysfunctional childhood, is telling its side of the story for the first time publicly in Vanity Fair in January (out next week). Members of the ...
Dec 06 2006: Bebe Moore Campbell, journalist and author of a range of adult and children's books that explored racial and social issues, died on November 27 in Los Angeles of brain cancer. She was 56. Her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr., was quoted by the New York Times as saying, "...
Dec 06 2006: No longer will authors vie to win a coveted Whitbread Literary Award, instead next month eyes will be on the winners of the Costa Award - same award, different name. The Whitbread Group initiated the Awards in 1971 when they were a well known British ...
Dec 06 2006: Houghton Mifflin is to be acquired by Riverdeep, an Irish-based software publisher. The deal is expected to go through before the end of the year. Under the structure of the deal, a newly formed company, HM Rivergroup, will acquire both HM and ...
Dec 06 2006: Ian McEwan, one of Britain's best known and most lauded authors, has been accused of copying phrases and sentences for his best-selling novel Atonement (2001) from a memoir published in 1977 by Lucilla Andrews, a former nurse and an acclaimed writer of romantic ...
Dec 06 2006: An investor group led by Ripplewood Holdings has agreed to buy Reader's Digest. They plan to pay $17 per share and will assume all Reader's Digest debt. Reader's Digest had sales of $2.39 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30 and an operating loss...
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