Panaji: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who single-handedly scripted the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the recently held Goa polls, may soon be 'scripting' yet another success story. He is planning to pen down a memoir on his political life and the 56-year-old claims he has enough fodder to make it to the bestseller list. "I am now thinking of writing a book and I am sure it will be...
03:26 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Salman Rushdie has written a memoir based on the time he spent hiding while under a fatwa that sentenced him to death in 1989. "For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being 'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran'," says his website. His novel 'The Satanic Verses' was accused by the...
02:15 PM, Apr 25, 2012
It is sometimes sad to know that readers (most of them) only remember Ismat Chughtai for 'Lihaaf' or 'The Quilt'. She has written a lot more and the 'more' is even more interesting than 'Lihaaf'. I remember the first time I was introduced to her works. I had turned twenty-three and my friend had taken me to watch a play, 'Manto Ismat Hazir Hain' produced by Motley, - which featured...
01:45 PM, Apr 18, 2012
New York: A memoir by brash US tennis player Jimmy Connors that promises to address his broken engagement to fellow tennis star Chris Evert as well as his rivalry with John McEnroe will be published in 2012, Harper Collins said on Monday. The release of the autobiography by the man regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time will coincide with his 60th birthday and 30th anniversary...
10:50 AM, Jun 21, 2011
New York: Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson is turning to fiction writing more than three years after publishing a memoir about her career. The New York Times reports that Wilson has a book deal with Penguin Group USA for a series of international suspense novels. The newspaper says she will team up with mystery writer Sarah Lovett on the books, which will feature a fictional operative. Wilson tells the...
08:09 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Los Angeles: Len Lesser, the working actor who got a big break late in life when he was cast as Uncle Leo on "Seinfeld," once visited the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in Judaism. Surrounded by hundreds of Jews and tourists from around the world paying homage at a remnant of the ancient wall that surrounded the courtyard of the Temple Mount, Lesser was caught up...
05:20 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Berlin: More than 65 years after World War Two, Adolf Hitler's last surviving bodyguard says that he can no longer respond to the continuous deluge of fan mail he receives from around the world, because of his advanced age. Rochus Misch is 93 and uses a walking frame to move around his apartment. He told the Berliner Kurier tabloid that, with most of the letters he receives asking for autographs,...
06:14 PM, Jan 27, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sold his memoirs to two publishing houses and is expected to have a manuscript ready in March, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported. The Guardian, one of the newspapers to whom WikiLeaks has provided some of the secret material it has acquired, said Assange is understood to have sold his memoirs, to publishers Canongate in Britain and Knopf in the United States, part of the Random...
12:54 PM, Dec 22, 2010
London: Anglo-Indian author Salman Rushdie has signed a worldwide deal to publish his memoirs in 2012, publishers Random House revealed in London on Thursday. "I have waited a long time to write this memoir, until I felt I was ready to do it. I'm ready now," the 63-year-old award-winning author said in a statement. Rushdie, who lives mostly in London, but also in New York, won the prestigious Booker Prize...
10:09 PM, Oct 21, 2010
New York: Former President George W. Bush's memoir will arrive next month with a huge first printing and an e-book with multimedia extras, Crown Publishers said in a statement Thursday. Decision Points will have a print run of 1.5 million copies, the same number given six years ago for Bill Clinton's My Life, which went on to sell more than 2 million copies, far greater than for most presidential memoirs....
02:37 PM, Oct 08, 2010
Vienna: Austrian schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch survived the start of her eight-year captivity in an underground cell by asking her kidnapper to read bedtime tales in an "illusion of normality", according to her new book. Kampusch's memoirs "3,096 Days", which appeared in Vienna on Tuesday, recount how her captor Wolfgang Priklopil starved her, beat her so badly that she could not lie on her back and forced her to clean his...
05:05 PM, Sep 08, 2010
London: In a remarkably frank memoir, former Prime Minister Tony Blair explains the reasons why politicians in high positions often cross the line and indulge in affairs with women: for the thrill of an "explosion of irresponsibility". Blair explores the "free-bird" impulse to have affairs "to spring you from that prison of self-control," and says: "Then there is the moment of encounter, so exciting, so naughty, so lacking in self-control."...
03:24 PM, Sep 02, 2010
The Cuban leader launched the 896-page memoir at a televised ceremony held at the Havana International Convention Centre. ...
04:59 PM, Aug 03, 2010
The 16 year-old is set to publish an illustrated memoir titled "Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story". ...
11:03 AM, Aug 03, 2010
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