And there is a walk-on appearance by Alex Michel from "The Bachelor" milking his last few minutes of fame.
Which passengers or staff would make a walk-on appearance in the pages of the new book?
Tate has now been the subject of three documentaries and has made a walk-on appearance in another fictional memoir, Boyd's Any Human Heart.
His lack of match fitness - he retired in 1998 and is grossly overweight - may prevent him making more than a walk-on appearance.
When Ms. Couric tried to ask a follow-up question, the interview was interrupted by a surprise walk-on appearance by Sister Angela Bayo from Convent of the Sacred Heart, who taught Lady Gaga in elementary school.
The walk-on appearance by Marilyn Horne as the Lady on the Levee in the final scene won this great mezzo-soprano, who has grappled with cancer (apparently with success), a warm ovation.
While smallpox often makes a deadly walk-on appearance in histories of colonial life, Ms. Fenn gives the virus top billing, arguing that one particularly lethal outbreak in the 1770's nearly cost the colonies the War of Independence.
Natalie Stella Judelson, a consultant who works with private schools and other nonprofit groups, said the most popular items were those that cannot be assigned an easy dollar figure, like the television show tour or a walk-on appearance in a movie.
Her favourite is the pathologically forgiving Ezra (who makes walk-on appearances in several later novels, she reveals).
The current collection, subtitled "A Life in Stories," includes excursions into the Mayan concept of time, Peruvian cave paintings, and child laborers in Pakistan, and features walk-on appearances by Hernán Cortés, Diego Maradona, and Michael Jackson.
Olive is loosely based on the writer E. Nesbit, and a great many real figures make walk-on appearances in the book, among them Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Rodin, Emma Goldman and Rupert Brooke, and Oscar Wilde on his last public outing before being imprisoned.
