Best of 2010, Update 2 I have finished the new Ralph Stanley biography, Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times. The book is officially authored by Ralph Stanley and Eddie Dean so I am not sure if this should be considered a biography, an autobiography, or some hybrid of the two. Perhaps there should be a new category called "celebrity biography" because of the way they are written from interviews and taped Submitted: on 19th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Autobiography · Biography · Celebrity Biography · Hybrid · WrittenAnimals come to rescue of biography market The biography of Casper the commuting cat is just one of a spate of 'animalit' titles being snapped up The story of Casper the commuting cat, set to be published this autumn, is the latest in a slew of animal memoirs which are being heralded as the saviours of a beleaguered biography market. The much-loved Casper, who used to ride the Number Three bus around Plymouth, died last month in ... Submitted: on 5th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Up · Biography · Cat · Died · Memoirs · Published · Story · The Story Of · TitlesKitty Kelley Completes Oprah Winfrey Biography The woman who picks America's most popular books will soon have her own biography to read. Following three years of research, Kitty Kelley's 544-page biography of Oprah Winfrey's life has been completed. Crown Publishers has set a first printing of more than more 500,000 copies, and the book debuts on April 13, 2010, in hardcover, audiobook, and eBook formats. Kelley has written jui... Submitted: on 22nd Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Audiobook · Biography · Ebook · Ebook Formats · Hardcover · Oprah Winfrey · Popular Books · Printing · Publishers · WrittenWalter Isaacson Reportedly Will Write "Authorized Biography" of Steve Jobs Yesterday the NY Times broke the news that Apple CEO Steve Jobs "is set to collaborate on an authorized biography." After a little bit of research, GalleyCat spotted the first mention of Jobs in the work of his new biographer. According to the article, the biography will be written by Walter Isaacson--author of American Sketches. The author would not comment on the anonymously attributed claims th... Submitted: on 17th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · American · Apple · Author · Biography · Write · WrittenSusan Boyle Biography DREAMS CAN COME TRUE in Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly reports on the new Susan Boyle biography, Dreams Can Come True, which is set for release on February 9: "Overlook has acquired the first biography of British reality TV singing sensation Susan Boyle, Dreams Can Come True. Written by Alice Montgomery, the book, which is slated for February 9 and will be simultaneously published in England by Penguin UK, will trace Boyle's arc... Submitted: on 15th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · uk · Biography · Published · Publishers · Publishers Weekly · Susan · uk · WrittenBook Review Podcast: A Biography of Willie Mays Featuring James S. Hirsch on his biography of Willie Mays; and the Book Review's Alida Becker on driving in China. Submitted: on 26th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Biography · Book Review · James · TheAnne Boleyn was guilty of adultery, new biography claims Charges for which she was executed, long thought to have been cooked up, are likely to have been true, says historian George Bernard A new biography of Anne Boleyn is set to claim that, far from being framed for adultery, Henry VIII's second queen may not have been innocent of the affairs for which she was sentenced to death. The widely held view among contemporary historians is that the char... Submitted: on 23rd Feb 2010 Tags: · contemporary · The · Up · Biography · Death · Henry VIII · UpTiger Woods biography to include new details and interviews A new Tiger Woods biography is due out in May 2010, reported Publishers Weekly on February 8. According to publisher Da Capo (an imprint of Perseus Books), the book will include new interviews and exclusive details about the controversy-surrounded golf star. Submitted: on 10th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Biography · Exclusive · Publisher · Publishers · Publishers Weeklybook review - The Life of Monsieur de Moliere - Mikhail Bulgakov Bulgakov is one of my favourite authors so it was with a pleasure to pick up his biography of Moliere. Produced beautifully by One World Classics, which specialise in publishing hard to find texts from Russian authors, the look and feel wins you over straight away. Although in many respects this is a straight forward biography, after an opening chapter that is full of invention and brilliance, the... Submitted: on 4th Jan 2010 Tags: · straight · The · Up · Authors · Biography · Book Review · Chapter · Favourite Authors · Mikhail Bulgakov · Opening · Publishing · Russian Authors · TheImmersing Myself in Muriel Spark's Life and Work I read Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard over the course of the last couple of weeks with much pleasure. It's not a great biography. Stannard's tendency to skip back and forth in time and to shift between first and last names when referring to the vast cast of characters made it difficult at times to figure out what exactly happened between who when. And he had theories abou... Submitted: on 11th Feb 2010 Tags: · Exactly? · The · What · When · Biography · Characters · Exactly? · Martin · Muriel Spark · What
