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 Unreleased Kennedy Memoir 
 Climbing Bestseller Lists 

True Compass will be released Sept. 14

Aug 29, 09 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Kennedy’s unreleased memoir, True Compass, is already creeping up the bestseller lists. Originally scheduled for 2010, it's been moved up to mid-September by publisher Hachette, which plans to ship 1.5 million copies to booksellers. Pre-orders have put True Compass at No. 9 on Amazon and... More »

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Congress • Senate • Ted Kennedy • memoir • Amazon.com • best seller • Barnes & Noble • Edward Kennedy

(Newser) - Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot hero of January’s Hudson River jet landing, was driven to help others by his father’s suicide, the New York Daily News reports. “One of the reasons I think I’ve placed such a high value on life is that my father took his,... More »

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suicide • US Airways • memoir • father • book • good samaritan • publishing industry • Chesley Sullenberger • Flight 1549

 Biography Bares 
 Lord of the Flies 
 Author's Demons 

Biographer sheds light on unseen memoirs

Aug 16, 09 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an unpublished autobiography, the author of Lord of the Flies described his attempted rape of a 15-year-old when he was about 18, the Times of London reports. While walking with the girl, he “felt sure she wanted heavy sex, as this was visibly written on her pert, ripe... More »

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rape • memoir • novelist • autobiography • sexual assault • William Golding

(Newser) - Dick Cheney has decided the "statute of limitations" has expired on some secrets from the Bush era, associates tell the Washington Post. Discussing his memoir-in-progress, the former vice president has made it plain that he felt President Bush was getting soft in his second term, and moved away from... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Lewis Scooter Libby • memoir • George W. Bush

 Posthumous 
 Carlin 
 Memoir 
 Coming 

Simon and Schuster will publish comedian's Last Words

Jul 14, 09 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - We haven't heard the last from George Carlin. A posthumous memoir of the late comedian's life will be published by Simon and Schuster’s Free Press in November, reports Entertainment Weekly. Entitled Last Words, the book is Carlin’s take on his 50-year career. Carlin, who died last June at... More »

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memoir • book • comedian • George Carlin • publishing industry

(AP) - Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster. The memoir is expected to be published in spring 2011, a few months after George Bush's book comes out. Financial terms were not disclosed, though a publishing official with knowledge of the negotiations figured it... More »

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Dick Cheney • vice president • memoir • Simon & Schuster • publishing industry

 Obama Half-Bro 
 Clinches Book Deal 

Will write about journey from life of crime to life of advocacy

Jun 15, 09 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s half-brother will publish a memoir next year, in a book deal one official says is worth six figures, the AP reports. George Obama, 27, lives in Kenya and did not grow up with the president, but they share a passion for community organizing—an area George embraced... More »

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Barack Obama • memoir • Barack Obama Sr. • George Obama • book deal

(Newser) - The former lover of John F. Kennedy exposed in 2003 has a deal with Random House to write a memoir, the New York Times reports. Mimi Beardsley worked as a White House intern and had an 18-month affair with the president from 1962 to 1963, starting when she was... More »

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John F. Kennedy • president • memoir • Random House • extramarital affair • JFK • Mimi Beardsley • lover

 Palin Signs  
 Book Deal 


May 12, 09 6:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Governor, VP candidate, and now author. Sarah Palin has signed on with HarperCollins to write a memoir that will be published next spring, reports the Anchorage Daily News. Palin will hire a collaborator but says she'll do most of the writing herself. Neither she nor the publisher will say how... More »

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Alaska • memoir • HarperCollins • governor • Sarah Palin • book deal

OPINION

Edwardses
Can't Get Out of Their Own Way

With book, betrayed Elizabeth trades
privacy for payback

May 6, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards knew her husband’s run for president could implode the moment his affair with Rielle Hunter came out, but she played the loving wife role anyway. “It was hard to walk away,” writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. “Just as it’s... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • Maureen Dowd • infidelity • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair • betrayal

BOOK EXCERPT

 Elizabeth Edwards: 
 Road With John 
 Is Clear, But Long 

Memoir excerpt reveals reaction, recovery after John's affair

May 5, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Elizabeth Edwards memoir about coming to terms with her husband's disastrous affair, she tries to understand why he was "targeted” by videographer Rielle Hunter and why he fell for it. "I have come to understand his liaison with this woman, if I have, not as a substitute... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • memoir • book • Rielle Hunter • extramarital affair

 Edwards: I Cried, 
 Screamed Over 
 John's Affair 

New book reveals 'crying, screaming' reaction to news of affair

Apr 30, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards reveals her reaction to husband John’s affair—which she knew about nearly a year before the story broke—in her new book, the New York Daily News reports. “I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up,” she writes in Resilience, out... More »

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John Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards • presidential campaign • affair • memoir • Rielle Hunter

Spector's Kid
Seems as Crazy
as Spector

Memoir pitch reveals sordid details about dad's 'lady' friend

Apr 23, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Phil Spector’s son had as interesting an upbringing as one might imagine. In his memoir proposal, the Post reports, Louis Spector recalls a night involving “a bottle of wine, a Playboy magazine," and one of dad’s “lady” friends: “That night I lost my innocence,... More »

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Phil Spector • sex • memoir • underage sex • book • Louis Spector

(Newser) - Levi Johnston is shopping a tell-all memoir about his experience with the Palin family, the National Enquirer reports. Insiders say the estranged father of Sarah Palin’s grandson is hoping to start a war chest in advance of an anticipated custody battle. “If Levi could get a million... More »

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literature • memoir • custody battle • Sarah Palin • celebrity tell-alls • publishing industry • Bristol Palin • Levi Johnston • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston

 Phelps 
 Chugs Vodka 
 While Mom 
 Plugs Book 

Swimmer backs mom in NYC, up-ends bottle of Grey Goose

Apr 9, 09 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Phelps, well on his way to reclaiming his All-American image, was spotted at a New York hotspot “drinking straight from a bottle of Grey Goose,” a source tells the Daily News. At one point, “he got up, started dancing like a loon and kept on yelling,... More »

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Michael Phelps • alcohol • 2008 Beijing Olympics • memoir • Olympians • Olympic athletes • US Olympic athletes • Debbie Phelps

(Newser) - Barack Obama will be “the best president he can be,” Bob Dylan tells the Times of London, though he has “no idea” if Obama will actually be good at the job. “Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as... More »

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Barack Obama • Bob Dylan • presidential politics • memoir • book • Dreams From My Father • celebrity interview • President Obama

(Newser) - Former Atlanta Falcons star Michael Vick is shopping around a memoir that will likely "be a big mea culpa," Rush & Molloy write in the New York Daily News. The bankrupt quarterback has a tale to tell—from poverty to stardom to a 23-month prison sentence... More »

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Michael Vick • bankruptcy • memoir • dog fighting

book review

 SNL Insider Dishes
 on Early Days 

Sketch writer offers backstage pass to zany early years

Mar 19, 09 4:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The early seasons of Saturday Night Live “set an almost impossibly high bar” for the future, writes Stephanie Zacharek in Salon, and Al Franken’s writing partner shows why in his new book. Tom Davis offers a backstage pass to early antics at 30 Rock, and it's a compelling... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Tom Davis • memoir • George Harrison • Al Franken • Chris Farley

(Newser) - The Decider, aka George W. Bush, will write a book titled Decision Points, the New York Post reports. The former president's rumored advance for the book, due out in 2010, is $7 million. That’s $5 million short of Bill Clinton’s deal for My Life, $1 million less than... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Tony Blair • Bill Clinton • publishing • memoir • Random House • George W. Bush • book deal • Crown Publishing Group • My Pet Goat

(Newser) - The people of Illinois have voted in a Chicago Tribune contest to name Rod Blagojevich’s upcoming memoir, and the winner is: Rod and the Giant Impeach. “I thought of the impeachment of the governor, and about my childhood,” the winner said of his inspiration, which scored him... More »

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corruption • contest • Illinois • memoir • Roald Dahl • governor • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • Chicago Tribune

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