LONDON -- A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale at a charity auction.
WASHINGTON -- A new partnership will allow U.S. scholars and the public to get a fuller view of the trove of books and records Ernest Hemingway left at his home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous works.
NEW YORK -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is taking on the topic of freedom of expression.
NEW YORK -- Mitch Albom, one of the country's most popular authors, has a new publisher and a new novel coming this fall.
NEW YORK -- The standoff between publishers and libraries over e-books is rapidly easing.
NEW YORK -- Mariano Rivera is writing an autobiography. No word on whether he'll open with the final chapter.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- An intriguing peek into the daily scribbles and life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is now available online, just weeks before the opening of the movie "The Great Gatsby."
NEW YORK -- The youngest sister of actress Glenn Close is working on a memoir about her struggles with mental illness.
NEW YORK -- "Remember -- you are your own brand," business coach Franne McNeal was telling some 100 women crowded into a downtown Manhattan office lounge one evening last week.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- One of Maya Angelou's doctors says the poet and author is recovering at her North Carolina home following a brief hospitalization.
UNDATED -- Book review for: "The Famous and the Dead" (Dutton), by T. Jefferson Parker.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- E.L. Konigsburg, an award-winning author and illustrator of children's books, has died. She was 83.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas -- After a feverish month of inspiration, Colleen Hoover had finally fulfilled her dream of writing a book.
NEW YORK -- The publisher of Stephen King, Bob Woodward and other top-selling authors has changed its policy of withholding e-books from libraries.
UNDATED -- Book review for "Fangs Out" (The Permanent Press), by David Freed
SADDLE RIVER, N.J. -- The desk of Mary Higgins Clark looks remarkably ordered for one of the world's most popular novelists. But the upkeep can be explained by spring cleaning and by a pause between projects as Clark promotes a new novel, and plans her next.
NEW YORK -- Letters written by J.D. Salinger to a spiritual mentor have been donated to a New York City museum.
NEW YORK -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has a book deal.
LONDON -- Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger -- it's not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.
NEW YORK -- Beginning work a few years ago on her latest book, an anthology of poems for young people, Caroline Kennedy found herself looking through one of her mother's scrapbooks. She burst into laughter, she says, as she came across a poem that her brother John, as a youngster, had picked out and copied as a gift to their poetry-loving mom.
