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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Helen Springut '03 happened upon Harry Potter on her little brother's bookshelf and was hooked...

Author: By Edric Lescouflair, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soaring Away With Harry Potter | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

Think again. Since J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was released in August 1998, thousands of young--and old--Americans have reentered a magical world via Harry Potter...

Author: By Edric Lescouflair, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soaring Away With Harry Potter | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Harry Potter is inspiring almost as much loyalty as E. B. White's lovable spider...

Author: By Edric Lescouflair, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soaring Away With Harry Potter | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Harry Potter is a small, bespectacled British boy with a charming rags-to riches-story...

Author: By Edric Lescouflair, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soaring Away With Harry Potter | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...stop the reading public from snapping up biographies as if they were retellings of polar expeditions. A glance at the New York Times Book Review bestseller list for nonfiction reveals that biographies take up a large share of the popular market. Regardless of what the domination of Harry Potter books on the fiction bestseller list might indicate about the typical reader of today, just as interesting is the number of biographies on the nonfiction list. Of the top 15 bestsellers last week, only two non-fiction books can be classified as having no biographical content or slant whatsoever...

Author: By Erik Beach, | Title: Biography: What Is It? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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