The central hub in this framework is her father, Leonard Shlain, a surgeon turned best-selling author and heterodox philosopher of the human mind.
Maeve Binchy, a newspaperwoman turned best-selling author whose sprawling novels of Ireland portrayed women confronting all manner of adversity, died on Monday in Dublin.
C. David Heymann, a literary biographer turned best-selling celebrity biographer who came to wide attention in 1983 after his life of the heiress Barbara Hutton was withdrawn by its publisher because of factual errors, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
To judge by her fiction writing, the retired schoolteacher turned best-selling writer Leila Meacham would seem to be personally acquainted with outsize heartbreak, betrayal and the cruelties one generation commits unto the next.
The onetime derivatives trader turned best-selling author (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan) admonished former colleagues for practicing a treacherous form of ignorance.
BattleSeen is a new 'soldier generated video' site being backed by Andy McNab, the former SAS soldier turned best-selling author, and London-based webcasting firm Spoken.
The Internet's most famous anonymous sex blogger – turned best-selling author – turned internationally successful TV series – has finally outed herself in the UK's Sunday Times.
Day five We boarded a Peruvian prop plane for a side trip to view the mysterious Nazca lines drawings miles long of birds and animals that some notably former Swiss hotelier turned best-selling author Erich von Daniken believe have origins in outer space.
The trailer casts her as a TV personality turned best-selling author without kids.
They include Sherwin Shep Nulandnd, a retired surgeon turned best-selling author; Marion Rosen, a physical therapist who pioneered new techniques in her 60s and developed an institute that established her "Rosen Method" in training centers worldwide; and Gil Garcetti, the L.A. district attorney who failed to get a conviction in the O.J. Simpson trial.
