Last year, author Sir Salman Rushdie withdrew from the festival after reports of a death threat.
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With the intuitive control pad and a built-in library-management system, customers can easily navigate and organize their library by title, date last read and author.
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Dick Phalon left FORBES for a newspaper career (Herald Tribune, New York Times) but we got him back as a contributing editor in 1980 and a book author last year (FORBES: Greatest Investing Stories).
Other on-board offerings came from Cardiff poet Matthew Francis, author of last year's prize-winning collection 'Dragons.
Nobody knows that better than John Prescott, my Deputy these last 10 years, author of "traditional values in a modern setting".
Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee and an author of last year's legislation to combat corporate fraud.
Last week I discussed author Gary Ponzo and his success bypassing a hardcover deal and building a readership solely via Kindle and Amazon.
Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, sees two parallels between today's legal and cultural marijuana environment and the late 1920s and early '30s when the move to end America's experiment with prohibition of alcohol gained steam.
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Lord of the Rings is currently packing them in and last week Philip Pullman author of a trilogy of children's books was awarded one of the world's top literary prizes the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first time that a book aimed at children has carried off this particular award, The Amber Spy Glass, part three of the trilogy.
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But he is only the fifth most borrowed author over the last 10 years, lagging behind Wilson, and romantic novelists Danielle Steel, Catherine Cookson and Josephine Cox.
The troubles and influences of US bands seemed very distant, according to John Harris, author of The Last Party and presenter of BBC Four's The Britpop Story.
Also attending will be Jim Crumley, author of The Last Wolf, and Roy Dennis who has had lead roles in the reintroduction of ospreys, sea eagles and red kites.
It can be seen as a strange case of life mirroring Dickens's final artistic efforts - the author's last, unfinished work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, centred on the suspense of the possibility of a corpse hidden in Rochester Cathedral.
This op-ed is based on the author's testimony last week before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee.
When Austrian author Elfriede Jelinek won last year's Nobel Prize for literature, it took Katherine Arens by surprise.
In a Morning Edition interview last week, George Edwards, author of Why the Electoral College is Bad for America, questioned the system.
History text book author, Sean Lang, last week called for a modern history curriculum that was not so skewed towards the first half of the 20th century.
This article is by Mark Ryski, author of Conversion: The Last Great Retail Metric and When Retail Customers Count and chief executive and founder of HeadCount Corporation.
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Last week, the study's lead author did not return an e-mail requesting clarification.
Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow is the last living Plains Indian war chief, and author of works on Native American history and culture who has served as an inspiration to young Native Americans across the country.
The author, who was knighted in June last year, became a literary star overnight at 34 with Midnight's Children.
When "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer told an MTV interviewer last year that she doesn't plan to write more vampire books anytime soon, "Twi-hards" struck back on the Internet.
Last year, CNBC poached Robert Frank, the author of Richistan and The High-Beta Rich and pioneer of the wealth beat at The Wall Street Journal, to set up the Inside Wealth blog at the cable channel.
Islamic scholar and author Reza Aslan wrote after the Amman bombings last November that moderate Muslim clerics must reclaim a faith hijacked by extremists.
In an unusual move, the public prosecutor has reopened charges against a minor author, who was given a suspended sentence last year for writing atheist tracts.
He's also the author of "Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, " and he joins us now.
While the name of the author and title of the ebook may have changed from last time, many of the facts are the same.
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Improbably, and unbeknownst to us when last week's column was written, the article's author was none other than a colleague at the Center for Security Policy, J.
Frances Harrison, author of the book Still Counting the Dead on the last months of the war, told the BBC "the only way now for Ban Ki-moon to restore the UN's tattered credibility on Sri Lanka is to call an independent international investigation into the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in 2009".
Last year's winner, Please Look After Mom by South Korean author Kyung-Sook Shin, went on to sell more than two million copies.
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