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It strikes me that the beleaguered editor in the publishing house - a largely unsung hero in the creation of great books - needs such a reason to provide the necessary authority to persuade a loquacious, powerful star author on whom the company depends to just cut it out.
In 1971, she brought her latest star author down to The Red House in Thame, Oxfordshire.
McDonald's has at least one fan left: movie star, author and former McDonald's employee James Franco.
Strikingly, the reminder tagline usually applied to people in obituaries – screen star, author, broadcaster – is problematic in her case.
She was soon encouraged by Weidenfeld to write, became a star author and remained a close friend.
His star author was Erich Kästner, whose Emil and the Detectives series of children's books were, coincidentally, later published by Cape in the UK.
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But as a result, she said, he never coddles star authors like Mr. Clinton.
In "Hothouse," Boris Kachka writes about FSG's star authors, and about the three men — Roger Straus, John Farrar and Robert Giroux — who made the company a success.
The gala, which raises money for the Norman Mailer Center and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, celebrates college writers and high school teachers in addition to star authors.
This year's crop is an intoxicating brew of star authors and celebrities: Martina Cole v Robert Harris Sir Tom Joness v Brian Blessed Steve Coogann v Sue Perkins Nigella Lawsonn v Bill Bryson.
Random House's CCV division (whose main imprints are Jonathan Cape, Chatto and Vintage) took the Publisher of the Year prize: star authors Nigella Lawson and Ian McEwan helped CCV achieve spectacular sales growth in 2007, as well as 12 literary prizes.
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