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...Scholastic Corporation bought the U.S. rights to a young-adult fantasy novel by an unknown English author for $105,000. That was a lot of money at the time, especially to the not yet ultra-rich Joann Rowling, but it turned out to be the bargain of the century - that one, and probably this one too. Over the next decade or so Scholastic went on to print (spoiler alert!) over 140 million Harry Potter books. (Read about Harry Potter's last adventure here...
...compared with three for McCain and one for his running mate, Sarah Palin. Newsweek has placed Obama-focused stories on the cover eight times in 2008, vs. four for McCain. "The press decided the campaign was going to be about Obama," Mark Salter, McCain's close adviser and co-author of his books, said last month. "There was nothing we could do about that. The race is as we found...
...what extent do you see yourself as a Japanese author, as opposed to just an author? Daniel Burke Chicago I'm a Japanese writer. I was born in Japan and I live mainly in Japan. I think in Japanese and I write in Japanese. And, still, I look at things globally. For instance, my characters like tofu a lot. Let's say that a Norwegian reader reads that and thinks, "That guy likes tofu." But I don't know if he knows what tofu is! Still, he can understand what [the character] feels...
...Mark L. Clifford, executive director of the Asia Business Council, is the author of Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea
...pioneering author in the genre of young-adult fiction, Jeannette Eyerly boldly tackled challenging topics in her work. She delved into issues such as unwanted pregnancy and divorce in a way that her young readers could relate to. Among her nearly 20 books were Bonnie Jo, Go Home (which dealt with abortion) and The Girl Inside, a story about coping with death. Her candid presentation was unprecedented in girls' fiction in the 1960s and helped pave the way for generations of writers to follow...