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...turns out that Robert B. Reich, the former Secretary of Labor and soulmate of Bill Clinton, kept a diary. That's unusual in the subpoena-happy capital, and so is the tone of his kiss-and-shrug memoir--a bittersweet but ultimately forgiving account of his four years in Washington. In Locked in the Cabinet, to be published this month by Knopf, Reich describes his constant appeals to Clinton's conscience against the stronger pull of such personalities as then Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and presidential adviser Dick Morris...
...Press hauled in an award for a photo of Boris Yeltsin grooving at a rock concert during his re-election campaign. In the arts category, Wynton Marsalis won the music award for "Blood on the Fields," an epic composition on slavery; Frank McCourt's book "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" took the prize for biography. The book focused on McCourt's youth in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. The prizes are presented by Columbia University every year and include a gold medal for the public service award and a $5000 check for all other Pulitzer Prize winners. Having disqualified some...
...stroke that paralyzed Jean-Dominique Bauby was cruelly premature, at least death had the courtesy to wait until the 45-year-old French journalist finished his last assignment. Less than 72 hours after readers and critics alike hailed as a triumph his memoir of living with locked-in syndrome--a state of virtually total paralysis that leaves the victim, in Bauby's words, "like a mind in a jar"--the former editor in chief of French Elle magazine died. Bauby's book Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Bubble and the Butterfly) is a celebration of life written...
...penchant for history, however, soon took over, and he wrote two nonfiction books: James Beard: A Biography and River of the West. Since publishing In the Deep Midwinter, Clark has finished another book with the working title Mr. White's Confusion and is researching for his next project, a memoir and genealogy of his family...
...first novel, The Lost Language of Cranes (1987), were praised for their artful and frank treatment of gay characters and themes. But his ascending career hit a wall with the appearance of While England Sleeps (1993). Leavitt's novel included embroidered scenes from British poet Stephen Spender's 1951 memoir of the Spanish Civil War, World Within World, and Spender was outraged. Claiming incidents from his life had been plagiarized and rendered "pornographic" as well, the poet sued, and Leavitt's novel was removed from sale in Britain and the U.S. A revised version, answering legal objections, was published...