Book People

In this photo supplied by General Motors, actor Antonio Banderas signs books by Theodor Seuss Geisel on the hood of a Saturn Outlook at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jan. 23, 2007. The books will be donated by Saturn to local schools for fundraising. Banderas is attending the festival to promote the film "Summer Rain," which he directed.

Christian Slater reads "The Cat in the Hat" to local school children during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jan. 22, 2007. Slater made the appearance to help support the National Endowment for the Arts Read Across America reading promotion campaign. Saturn is a sponsor of Read Across America.

Actor Nick Cannon reads "Green Eggs and Ham" by Theodor Seuss Geisel to local school children during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jan. 22, 2007. Cannon made the appearance to support the National Endowment of the Arts' Read Across America campaign to promote reading. Saturn is a sponsor of Read Across America.

Actor Ralph Fiennes performs at the Readings of Beckett Poetry & Prose event at NIDA Kensington on Jan. 16, 2007, in Sydney, Australia. The readings are drawn from the works of Samuel Beckett and form part of the Dublin's Gate Theatre Beckett Season at the Sydney Festival 2007.

Steve Martin arrives at the premiere of the film "The Out-Of-Towners," March 29, 1999, in Hollywood, Calif. The comedian, filmmaker, actor and author is writing a memoir, "Born Standing Up," billed by publisher Scribner as "his first work of narrative nonfiction," a "riveting chronicle of his early years as a stand-up comedian and a fascinating portrait of an era."

Actress Mariel Hemingway makes an appearance at Borders to sign copies of her new book, "Healthy Living From The Inside Out," Jan. 4, 2007, in New York City.

Rapper LL Cool J signs copies of his new fitness book, "LL Cool J's Platinum Workout," Jan. 3, 2007, in New York City.

Singer and actor 50 Cent speaks during a book signing in New York on Jan. 4, 2007. 50 Cent was celebrating his new publishing venture, G-Unit Books.

Author Joseph Wambaugh poses Dec. 7, 2007, in Hollywood. In his latest book, "Hollywood Station," Wambaugh recalls the golden days of his beloved LAPD, when Jack Webb would intone on TV's "Dragnet": "This is the city, Los Angeles, California."

Village Books owner Chuck Robinson, a longtime book club member himself, has seen the evolution of book clubs. He began reaching out to customers and their clubs this year, registering the groups and offering discounts for selected books.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Alabama author Harper Lee talks to friends backstage Jan. 10, 2007, at the Davis Theater in Montgomery, Ala., on the occasion of a performance adaptation of her book "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Alabama high school students.

Author Joan Didion makes an appearance at The CUNY Graduate Center to speak at the New York Times Arts and Leisure Weekend in New York City on Jan. 5, 2007.

Mrs. Valerie Eliot, widow of poet T.S. Eliot, poses for a portrait at the Wallace Collection on Jan. 15, 2006, in London.

Author Lee Smith talks Oct. 1, 2006, from the front porch of her home in Hillsborough, N.C., about her new book, "On Agate Hill," the first book she has written since the death of her son, Josh Seay, in 2003.

Professor Donald Cozzens poses on the campus of John Carrol University on Dec. 14, 2006, in Cleveland. The former seminary president sparked church-wide debate about the number of gay Roman Catholic priest. In his latest book, he tackles celibacy, calling it a burdensome, unnecessary restriction.

Brita Light poses Dec. 13, 2006, with her artwork at Re-de-find, an exhibit at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis. Several teen artists showed their work at the exhibit that featured projects from teenagers in the center's By Design fall program.

Richard Wilbur, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate, poses beside his manual typewriter in his studio in Cummington, Mass., July 18, 2006.

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut and his wife, photographer Jill Krementz, arrive for the opening of the Broadway revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" on April 26, 2004, in New York. Vonnegut's most recent book, "A Man Without a Country," hit bookstores in paperback Jan. 16, 2007.

Derek Benz looks on as his friend and co-author John Lewis juggles three copies of their latest book, "The Rise of the Black Wolf," on Jan. 4, 2007, at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Ariz.

Former Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek holds a copy of his book, "Jerusalem and Me," in Stuttgart in this Sept. 28, 1995 file photo. Kollek, who was mayor of the holy city for 28 years, died Jan. 2, 2007, at the age of 95.

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