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New archives have disclosed that Marilyn Monroe was left devastated when she discovered that husband Arthur Miller had written in his diary that she was an embarrassment to him.
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The award-winning popular French novelist Bernard Clavel, an autodidact who began his working life as a baker, died Tuesday aged 87, his publisher said.
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American author and entrepreneur Gotham Chopra has revealed in his new book that it was his beloved pet pooch Cleo that helped late Michael Jackson overcome his fear of dogs.
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An author for the Lonely Planet travel guidebook series has claimed that he plagiarised
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A book describing the fate of an innocent man who spent 14 years behind bars for a crime committed by someone else has prompted the Meghalaya government to look into judicial and police reforms in the state.
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A New Orleans bartender who survived Hurricane Katrina won an "American Idol"-style competition on Monday after the public voted online for his book to be published by Penguin Group.
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The Guptara twins have already proved two heads are better than one when it comes to writing a bestseller. The 19-year-olds have made their name as authors in India and are now poised to conquer Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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Outwardly secular, politics in India is all about vote banks and keeping a party in power. No wonder the problem of infiltration of illegal migrants remains unresolved, threatening to snowball into major crisis, say intellectuals from the North East.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc's 2007 profits more than doubled, boosted by the release of the final Harry Potter book...
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Mariah Carey`s ex-husband Tommy Mottola is preparing to lift the lid on his life with the singer after signing a deal to write his memoir.
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Hollywood beauty Marilyn Monroe’s pleas to end her life in the years leading up to her tragic death have been exposed in a new book.
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"Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" (Riverhead Books, $26.95), by Steven Johnson: Great new ideas don`t always arrive suddenly like those symbolic light bulbs over the heads of comic-strip characters.