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J.K. Rowling answers questions such as who Malfoy and Neville marry?

Dec 20 2007: In a Q&A in Time magazine, J.K. Rowling answers in-depth questions such as what did Dumbledore really see in the Mirror of Erised? Who do Draco Malfoy and Neville marry? And what jobs do the key characters hold as adults?

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Rowling's 'Beedle the Bard' bought by Amazon

Dec 14 2007: Amazon have announced it was the mystery buyer of the copy of J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, bought at auction for £1.95 million (~$4 million) this Wednesday. Amazon have established a website where it is posting images from the extensively illustrated ...

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Single copy of J.K. Rowling's 'Tales of Beedle The Bard' sells for over $4 million

Dec 13 2007: The Times reports that J.K. Rowling's 160 page handwritten story of The Tales of Beedle the Bard sold for almost £2 million yesterday (over USA $4 million). The proceeds will go to the charity Children's Voice.

Rowling hand-wrote and illustrated just seven copies of ...

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Co-founder of The New York Review of Books dies

Dec 12 2007: Elizabeth Hardwick, the critic, essayist, fiction writer and co-founder of The New York Review of Books, died December 2, in Manhattan. She was 91.

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Brandon Sanderson to write final 'Wheel of Time' novel

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.

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Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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 '...

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Dinaw Mengestu's "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" wins book award

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.

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Court of Appeals rejects settlement between freelance writers and publishers

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 ...

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