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...current champion author is Billy Graham, whose most recent book, Angels, has sold a phenomenal 1.4 million copies in hardcover. While Preacher Graham helps a secular publisher (Doubleday) hit the Evangelical market, Jimmy Carter and Johnny Cash have turned to Evangelical houses to print their autobiographies (Why Not the Best? and Man in Black). Many best-selling authors, though, are virtually unknown outside the Evangelical circuit. Hal Lindsey, a onetime Jesus Movement leader, has sold more than 15 million books since 1970. His favorite theme: interpretation of Bible prophecies to prove that Jesus will soon return, most likely...
...WALLACE STEGNER 214 pages. Doubleday...
Pike, who was frankness personified, picked the title Nothing to Hide for the autobiography he never actually wrote. Now this biography (The Death and Life of Bishop Pike; Doubleday; $10), by William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, is even more candid than Pike was in life. The book has full backing from the bishop's last wife, Diane Kennedy Pike, whose introduction calls it "sensitively written" and adds "It has been my joy to cooperate with the authors." The authors tell in some detail how Diane became Pike's mistress long before they were married and nearly a year...
...pages. Doubleday...
...PETER BENCHLEY 301 pages. Doubleday...