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FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2008, file photo, United States' LoLo Jones reacts after the women's 100-meter hurdles final during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing Olympics in Beijing. When Lolo Jones opens her book, “Over It,” she doesn’t start with her biggest accomplishment. Instead, she opens with the “most painful race” of her career—the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Olympian Lolo Jones examines life's hurdles in new book

By Ragan Clark Jul. 20, 2021 03:07 PM EDT

FILE - Playwright Katori Hall poses for a portrait in front of the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York on Sept, 21, 2011. Hall won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play "The Hot Wing King." (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
'The Night Watchman,' Malcolm X biography win arts Pulitzers

By Hillel Italie And Mark Kennedy Jun. 11, 2021 01:32 PM EDT

This undated photo shows the front and back sides of the medal awarded for the Pulitzer Prizes in New York. The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts will be announced, Friday, June 11, 2021, almost two months later than initially planned due to the pandemic. (The Pulitzer Prizes via AP)
The Latest: 2021 Pulitzer Prizes honor journalism, arts

By The Associated Press Jun. 11, 2021 01:18 PM EDT

This image released by Ecco/HarperCollins shows author Jami Attenberg, founder of the 1,000 word challenge, calling for people to write 1,000 words a day for 14 days. The 2021 challenge began May 31 and ends Sunday. (Jami Attenberg via AP)
Fiction, memoirs, poems spring from 1,000-word challenge

By Hillel Italie Jun. 07, 2021 09:25 AM EDT

Molly Yeh poses for a portrait at SOBE WFF® on Saturday, May 22, 2021, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP)
Chef Molly Yeh's lockdown life full of recipes, baby firsts

By Kelli Kennedy Jun. 07, 2021 08:47 AM EDT

This cover image released by Crown shows "American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the Covid-19 Pandemic" by Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo disclosed Monday that he was paid a $3.1 million advance to write his COVID-19 leadership book last year and under his publishing contract will make another $2 million on the memoir over the next two years. (Crown via AP)
Cuomo set to earn $5M from book on COVID-19 crisis

By Marina Villeneuve May. 17, 2021 03:10 PM EDT

This cover image released by Traci Cangiano shows "In the Quarantine Kitchen," a self published book of recipes collected during the pandemic by Traci, Daniella and Kristina Cangiano. The book offers some 120 recipes from across the globe that users posted on the Cangianos' Facebook group. All proceeds will go to charity. (Traci Cangiano via AP)
A Facebook food group comes together to make a cookbook

By Mark Kennedy May. 17, 2021 11:36 AM EDT

This image released by WGBH-TV shows Katy Kane, left, as she appraises celebrity chef Carla Hall’s vintage purse collection in an episode of "Antiques Roadshow Celebrity Edition," airing May 10 on PBS. (WGBH/PBS via AP)
'Antique Roadshow' flips the script with celebrity editions

By Mark Kennedy May. 03, 2021 11:33 AM EDT

Points cover the surface of a plaster model from a sculpture by Chas Fagan of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel in the Human Rights Porch at the Washington National Cathedral, Thursday, March 25, 2021. The marks are made with a pointing machine, a measuring tool to accurately copy plaster sculpture models into stone. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel gets seat at National Cathedral

By Ashraf Khalil Apr. 28, 2021 12:09 AM EDT

This cover image released by shows "The Chef’s Garden: A Modern Guide to Common and Unusual Vegetables — with Recipes" by Farmer Lee Jones. The 640-page handsome book is equal parts vegetable reference bible, family memoir and recipe collection. (Avery via AP)
A farmer to chefs reveals his deep vegetable knowledge

By Mark Kennedy Apr. 21, 2021 10:17 AM EDT

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and the Future of the Human Race," by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster via AP)
Review: Take a ride into the greatest frontier in science

By Jeff Rowe Mar. 10, 2021 08:41 AM EST

This combination photo shows the cover of "The Soul of a Woman," left, and a portrait of author Isabel Allende. (Ballantine via AP left, and Lori Barra via AP)
Q&A: Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series, love in pandemic

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Mar. 09, 2021 11:02 AM EST

This 2018 photo released by the Gordon Parks Foundation shows Genevieve Young, a publishing editor and wife of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks. Young was 89 when she died at her home in Manhattan on Feb. 18, 2020, after a long battle with cancer. She was a publishing editor with a long and diverse legacy. Beyond publishing a paid notice in The New York Times, the family says it had trouble finding anyone to report on her death because of the quickly spreading coronavirus. Plans for a memorial tribute, originally scheduled for last spring, remain on hold. (Gordon Parks Foundation via AP)
Longtime editor Genevieve Young left legacy in publishing

By Hillel Italie Feb. 18, 2021 09:44 AM EST

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2020 file photo, Captain Sir Tom Moore walks down a guard of honour during a visit to the Army Foundation College in Harrogate, England, as part of his new role as Honorary Colonel of the Northern military training establishment. Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has died, Tuesday Feb. 2, 2021. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP, File)
Capt. Tom Moore, WWII vet whose walk cheered UK, dies at 100

By Danica Kirka Feb. 02, 2021 11:14 AM EST

This undated photo provided by John Creston DuBois shows Tristan Harris. Tristan Harris, Justin Rosenstein and Philip Clayton wrote essays for the book, "The New Possible". “The New Possible," is a collection of thought-provoking essays exploring how society can seize upon the recent upheaval to reshape technology, the economy, the environment, the food supply, government and community so we can eventually look back at 2020 as a reawakening instead of a death rattle. (John Creston DuBois via AP)
New book sees a 'New Possible' emerging from 2020's tumult

By Michael Liedtke Jan. 30, 2021 11:24 AM EST

Copies of Dorah Sitole's cook book "40 Years of Iconic Food", seen at centre, in Exclusive Books in Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. South Africa's pioneer Black food writer Sitole, portrait on cover, who quietly defied apartheid to win respect and a readership for African cuisine, died of COVID-19, in Jan. 2021. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
South Africa's trailblazing Black food writer dies of virus

By Mogomotsi Magome Jan. 19, 2021 03:37 AM EST

Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. At the end of the mass a delegation of youths from Panama will hand over the World Youth Day cross to youths from Portugal, where the next World Youth Day will be held in 2023. (Vincenzo Pinto/Pool via AP)
Pope book backs George Floyd protests, blasts virus skeptic

By Nicole Winfield Nov. 23, 2020 10:02 AM EST

This combination photo shows book cover images for Charles Yu's “Interior Chinatown,” a satirical, cinematic novel written in the form of a screenplay, left, and " “The Dead Are Arising:The Life of Malcolm X," a biography by Tamara Payne and her late father Les Payne. The novel and biography won National Book Awards for fiction and non-fiction respectively. (Pantheon via AP, left, and Liveright via AP)
Charles Yu novel, Malcolm X bio win National Book Awards

By Hillel Italie Nov. 18, 2020 08:44 PM EST

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales

By Hillel Italie Nov. 18, 2020 04:06 PM EST

UK vaccine chief warns of over-optimism, early imperfection

By Danica Kirka Oct. 28, 2020 01:47 PM EDT
LONDON (AP) — Warning that the first COVID-19 vaccines may be imperfect, the head of the U.K effort to develop a vaccine called Wednesday for immediate...