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...When LaHaye first conceived the series--entirely written by author Jerry Jenkins--he hoped to sell maybe 250,000 copies. Last year's installment alone sold 3 million, and for the first time since 1994, the author of the best-selling novel in the U.S. wasn't named Grisham...
Although the books did well before Sept. 11, sales soared in the confusing period that followed, and it's fair to speculate that last year's installment, Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne, would not have outsold John Grisham's Skipping Christmas to become the biggest novel of 2001 if the planes had not crashed. Near the end of the first volume, Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995), Jenkins writes of one of the heroes, "He wanted to believe something that tied everything together and made it make sense." Exactly...
...paperback author in America in 2001? John Grisham? J.K. Rowling? Nope, it was romance writer Nora Roberts. Sales for Roberts' eight new bestsellers total some 14 million copies, says PW. There are currently more than 145 million copies of Roberts' books in print. Her book, "The Villa" is No. 1 on the 4/28 NYT paperback fiction list; her current hardcover, "Three Fates," was No. 1 on the NYT hardcover list last week...
...Stephen L. Carter (Knopf), giving it a rhapsodic starred review. "This sleek, immensely readable first novel by Yale law professor Carter, author of such provocative nonfiction as 'The Culture of Disbelief' and 'God's Name in Vain,' is custom-designed for the kind of commercial success enjoyed by John Grisham's 'The Firm' 11 years ago...a melodrama with brains and heart to match its killer plot." First printing...
...such heavy-hitters as "Ice Age" and the re-release of "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." But black actors still aren't fully embraced by the Hollywood establishment. Recently, Will Smith (who lost out on Oscar night to Washington in the Best Actor category) went public with charges that John Grisham didn't want Smith in the movie version of one of his books because the character, as he wrote it, was white. It was good to see some history being made at the Academy Awards - Washington and Berry deserved their prizes - but if black actors want to continue to make...