Britain's Queen Elizabeth II meets author J.K. Rowling during a children's party at London's Buckingham Palace on June 25, 2006. Bob the Builder, J.K. Rowling and 2,000 children were due at Buckingham Palace to take tea with Queen Elizabeth II. The palace gardens were being transformed into a fairy-tale playground for the party, held to mark the queen's 80th birthday and celebrate British children's literature.
Author Kate Morton attends the launch of her latest book, "The Shifting Fog," at the Australian Maritime Museum on June 30, 2006. The book is said to be a rich and engrossing story of love, passion, secrets and lies set in the gaiety, glamour and grand country houses of post-war Edwardian England.
This undated photo shows the author of the new book, "More Natural 'Cures' Revealed," Kevin Trudeau. The book is the follow up to his No. 1 New York Times Best Seller, "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About."
A Chinese man holds up a Chinese version of Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time" during a question and answer session for a conference on string theory held in Beijing, China, on June 21, 2006. Stephen Hawking, a wheelchair-bound celebrity cosmologist charmed and provoked a group of Chinese students, telling them he liked Chinese women while warning that global warming might turn the Earth into a fiery planet.
First Lady Laura Bush hugs Caitlyn Clarke before giving the keynote address during a town hall meeting at the American Association of School Librarians convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on June 26, 2006. Ms. Clarke, 18, is the 2005-2006 high school student of the year for Jefferson Parish.
Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State University, is shown in his office in State College, Penn., on June 20, 2006. Hedges discovered a new method called "The Print Clock" for dating art prints and early books.
Producer Harvey Weinstein, Variety Editor Peter Bart and actor Kevin Spacey attend a cocktail party in New York hosted by Harvey and Bob Weinstein and Miramax Books to celebrate Peter Bart's new book "BOFFO!" on June 26, 2006.
This undated photo shows Columbia University English professor James Shapiro, author of "1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare." Shapiro received 30,000 pounds ($55,200) for winning the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction for the aforementioned book on June 14, 2006.
Author Ian McEwan, poses near his home in north central London on February 8, 2005. Recently, he won a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, which is one of Britain's oldest literary awards. The University of Edinburgh announced on June 7, 2006, that McEwan has won this year's fiction prize for "Saturday," his novel about a day in the life of a London neurosurgeon.
Cameron Johnson, 21, center, sits between his agent, Margaret Mcbride, and author David Mann during a taxi ride after a visit to a book publisher in New York on April 24, 2006. Mann is writing a book about Johnson, from Roanoke, Va., who's been an entrepreneur from the time he was nine.
Pauline Frommer, a travel author, poses at her publisher's, Wiley Publishers, offices in Hoboken, N.J., on May 15, 2006. The cost of travel has been going up all year and that is making it difficult, but not impossible, to find summertime bargains.
Author Bridget Harrison poses in this undated photo provided by her publisher Da Capo Press. In her memoir, "Tabloid Love," Harrison chronicles her trials and tribulations after leaving London to become a tabloid reporter in New York.
Collin Gates poses with a book at Watkins Glen Elementary School in Watkins Glen, N.Y., on May 18, 2006. Watkins Glen's famed road course, which sits on a hill just up the road from Collin's school, has spurred most of the nearly 500 kids in the school to read more through a program dubbed Read for Speed.
San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman reads from his book, "Front Lines," to an audience at the sixth annual Berkeley Poet Festival in Berkeley, Calif., on April 29, 2006. Over the years, Hirschman developed a working-class style of poetry that made him a vital, if lesser-known, voice of the Beat Generation.