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John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76

Associated Press
Jan 26, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of...
The horror! Neil Gaiman's spooky book wins Newbery

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Jan 25, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Oh, the horror: Neil Gaiman has received the top prize for children's literature: The John Newbery Medal. "I am so wonderfully befuddled," the best-selling a...
Comedian Chris Rock has a book deal

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Jan 12, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Chris Rock is making a comeback, as an author. Grand Central Publishing says Rock's new book -- not yet titled -- will be full of "comedic observations." It'...
Author's new novel takes on suburbia

By Scott C. Morgan
Jan 10, 2009 10:00 pm - William Elliott Hazelgrove admits part of his fame as a novelist is tied to his proximity to another author: the late Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway. More than a decade...
Sequel authorized to Winnie-the-Pooh

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Jan 08, 2009 10:00 pm - LONDON -- The world's favorite "silly old bear" is back. Publishers in Britain and the United States said Friday they will publish a new book of Winnie-the-Pooh adventur...
Book links JFK assassination to killings of RFK and MLK

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Jan 06, 2009 10:00 pm - A new, heavily researched book on John F. Kennedy's murder and its investigation sees links with a bagful of sensational stories, from President Johnson's fear of a nucl...
Book on elderly wisdom offers few real insights

Associated Press
Jan 05, 2009 10:00 pm - Actor and writer Henry Alford had a simple yet captivating idea: People must learn something in seven or more decades on Earth, and the younger set could probably benefi...
First lady signs book deal worth millions for memoir

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Jan 04, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- First lady Laura Bush has sealed a deal worth millions with Scribner to publish a memoir that will encompass her recollections of personal and historical m...
Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake dead at 75

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Jan 01, 2009 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Donald Westlake, a prolific author considered one of the most successful and versatile mystery writers in the United States, has died. He was 75. Westlake co...
Children's book based on Holocaust story is pulled

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Dec 29, 2008 10:00 pm - NEW YORK -- A children's book inspired by a since-discredited Holocaust story has been pulled by the publisher. Laurie Friedman's "Angel Girl," based on Herman Rosenblat...

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