Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov attends a signing for his new book, "How Life Imitates Chess," at a book store in Piccadilly, central London, on April 3, 2007.
Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home in Warren, Conn., on Sept. 5, 2005. On April 2, 2007, Roth was officially announced as the winner of the first ever PEN-Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. The $40,000 prize is named for the late Nobel laureate and one of Roth's closest friends and literary heroes.
A racy novel about the late baseball great Mickey Mantle, shown here in 1966, has found a new home after being canceled in the wake of publisher Judith Regan's firing. Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press that publishes many sports books, released Peter Golenbock's "7: The Mickey Mantle Novel" on April 3, 2007, with a planned first printing of 250,000.
Actress Rosario Dawson arrives at a comic book shop in New York on March 31, 2007, to sign "Grindhouse" memorabilia. "Grindhouse," a double feature by Dimension Films, will be released on April 6.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay autographs one of his books at a book signing in Sugar Land, Texas, on March 27, 2007. DeLay's book, "No Retreat, No Surrender," was released in March.
Harry Bernstein, 96, works at his typewriter in the bedroom of his Brick, N.J. home on March 14, 2007. What started out as almost a form of therapy eventually turned into his first book, "The Invisible Wall," which chronicles Bernstein's childhood in a northern England mill town.
French rapper Rost, 30, holds a copy of "Guide to Voters" in Paris on March 26, 2007. Rost, born in Togo, published the primer to explain the basics of France, citizenship and the right to vote to project dwellers, most of immigrant origin like himself. Rappers, known for their bad boy image and troubles with the law, are getting down in France's ghettos with a new tune: Vote in the presidential election in May.
Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor. Gordimer, shown with her dog at her home in Johannesburg on March 19, 2007, was awarded the decorative medal at a ceremony at the Pretoria home of Denis Pietton, the French ambassador in South Africa.
Author William Kennedy poses at his home in Averill Park, N.Y., on March 14, 2007. A two-month celebration of Kennedy's "Albany Cycle" of works about New York's capital and its once-mighty Democratic political machine is a sort of payback for a loyal son who has spun the city's roguish past into novels that have put it on the literary map.
Former President Bill Clinton waves to the crowd as he speaks at the Landon Lecture in Manhattan, Kan., on March 2, 2007. The New York Times reported on March 21 that Simon & Schuster will publish "Wrestling History: The Bill Clinton Tapes" at the end of 2008.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain holds up a copy of "Against All Hope" by former Cuban political prisoner Armando Valladares as he speaks at the Bay of Pigs Museum in Miami on March 21, 2007.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, right, is shown a book by book fair chairman Serge Eyrolles, left, during the inauguration of the 27th Paris Book Fair on March 22, 2007. The week-long fair focused on Indian writers.
Florida State University professor Darrin McMahon is shown in his office in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 27, 2007. McMahon's book, "Happiness: A History," was named in January by The New York Times as one of the 100 notable books of 2006. It traces what the great thinkers of Western philosophy have thought about happiness.
Author Larry Brown poses on March 19, 2000, near Oxford, Miss. Brown, who wrote about the often rough, gritty lives of rural Southerners, died in November 2004. His unfinished final novel, "A Miracle of Catfish," was published in March 2007, with notes from Brown on a proposed ending.
Charlotte Chandler, author of "Ingrid," a new biography of actress Ingrid Bergman, poses in New York on Feb. 19, 2007.
Andre Agassi sports a necklace reading "Daddy Rocks" during his match against Benjamin Becker of Germany at the U.S. Open Tennis tournament in New York on Sept. 3, 2006. The memoirs of the tennis star, gossip column favorite and philanthropist, a book strongly desired by numerous publishers, have been acquired by Alfred A. Knopf, according to a statement on March 28, 2007.
Britain-based U.S. author Lionel Shriver poses at her central London apartment on March 7, 2007. Shriver is famous in the U.K., but relatively unknown in the U.S. Her previous novel, "We Need to Talk About Kevin," which detailed a mother's reaction in the aftermath of her son's murderous rampage at his school and won the prestigious 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction, sold more than 600,000 copies in Britain.
Actor and writer Gene Wilder signs a copy of his new book, "My French Whore," at a Barnes & Noble store in New York on March 15, 2007. The love story is Wilder's first novel. In 2006, his memoir "Kiss Me Like a Stranger" was published.
Former Australian One Nation Party leader Pauline Hanson attends the Sydney launch of her autobiography "Untamed & Unashamed" on March 29, 2007. Her memoirs tell the story of how she came to be charged and served jail time for fraud, her fight to prove her innocence and of her life before and after politics.
Author and Driector Ken Russell reads extracts from his book "Beethoven Confidential and Brahms Gets Laid" at Waterstones in London on March 15, 2007.