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...edited memoirs by Gelsey Kirkland and Michael Jackson as well as obscure books she felt deserved attention, such as Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, the manuscript of which was languishing in a Kansas library until she took an interest. She made something of a crusade for Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar, getting what Rubin calls her SWAT team of assistants to promote the book. Most days she lunched at her desk on carrot and celery sticks. Says Doubleday associate publisher Marly Russoff: "It was always a shock for the first few times when you'd pass...
...also extremely tough about keeping her private life resolutely just that. And, according to Mankiewicz, when Manchester wanted to renege on the agreement giving her final approval of the manuscript of Death of a President, Jackie fought him. "When my children grow up, I don't want them to read all the gruesome stuff about his brain and the way he looked," she said, according to Mankiewicz. "She wanted those passages out, and by God she got them...
...back, via newly discovered Dr. Seuss manuscript...
...time of his death, Camus was working on a long autobiographical novel, which he called Le Premier Homme (The First Man). Near the scene of the fatal accident, investigators found Camus's mud-stained, accordion-style black briefcase; among its contents were 144 handwritten manuscript pages containing about 80,000 words -- a first version of the first part of his intended work. Camus's widow Francine refused all entreaties to publish the unrevised fragment, but his daughter Catherine, now 48, who inherited her father's estate after her mother's death in 1979, decided that the manuscript would be made...
This initial section of the surviving manuscript, subtitled Search for the Father, achieves a raw, personal poignancy that Camus never allowed himself to show in life. Le Premier Homme also displays Camus's deep, nostalgic affection for the Algeria of his childhood, for the French (the pieds noirs) and other European settlers who went to the North African Mediterranean coast in search of a new world, for what he called in his diary "those luminous years...