Book People

Author Amy Tan poses in her apartment in New York's SoHo section, with her dog, Bubba. Tan, who wrote "The Joy Luck Club" and other best-selling books, has just been named literary editor of West, the Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine.

Juliette Binoche

French actress Juliette Binoche holds in her hands the Hungarian edition of Hungarian writer Gitta Mallasz's book titled "The Angel's Answer" during its promotion in Budapest, Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. The book is the true story of four friends, who lived in Hungary in the midst of World War II and received teachings from beings they called Angels.

Nicholson Baker & Margaret Brentano

Author Nicholson Baker and his wife, Margaret Brentano, pose Nov. 20, 2005, with a copy of their new book at their home in South Berwick, Maine. The book is a selection of captioned photographs of pages from Sunday editions of Joseph Pulitzer's lavishly illustrated New York paper, The World.

Camilo Jose Vergara

Author Camilo Jose Vergara poses across the street from the Salvation and Deliverance Church in Harlem, N.Y., Tuesday Jan. 3, 2006. Vergara's book "How the Other Half Worships," includes photos of the church, which was a former warehouse, and a variety of other churches throughout America.

John Tucker

Author John Tucker, seated, listens to executive director of Centurion Ministries, James McCloskey, right, during a news conference in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006. McCloskey, who had worked to prove the innocence of Roger Keith Coleman said that the DNA results proving his guilt is a bitter pill to swallow. Tucker wrote a book about the case.

James Frey

Author James Frey, with his mother Lynne, appears on "Larry King Live" to discuss allegations of fraud in the writing of his memoir, "A Million Little Pieces" on CNN Wednesday night, Jan. 11, 2006.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Two boys play soccer in front a mural painting of Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Aracataca, Colombia, Jan. 4, 2006. Aracataca's mayor wants to cash in on the international fame of the author and extend the town's name to Aracataca-Macondo, in reference to the mythical city in the author's masterwork "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Arthur Golden

Author Arthur Golden, who wrote the best-selling novel "Memoirs of a Geisha," poses for his portrait during a visit to New York. Golden is defending the new film version of his novel amid criticism from some experts in the geisha world.

Crown Prince Naruhito

Japan's Emperor Akihito, sitting in a chair, listens to a poem during the annual verse reading ceremony with Empress Michiko, Crown Prince Naruhito, third left, and Prince Akishino, second left, at Imperial Palace in Tokyo Jan. 12, 2006. Naruhito and his wife, Crown Princess Masako, penned "tanka" poems about their 4-year-old daughter Aiko, who could become Japan's first reigning empress in more than two centuries.

Rajaa al-Sanie

This image, released by Rajaa al-Sanie on Thursday Dec. 14, 2005, shows the Saudi author in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Al-Sanie's book, "The Girls of Riyadh," has sparked controversy in Saudi Arabia for tackling issues about the love lives and dreams of Saudi women, issues society there doesn't talk about. The book, published in Lebanon in September, has been selling so fast that its publisher is printing a third edition.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, left, thanks the President of Nicaragua, Enrique Bolanos, after receiving Nicaragua's highest cultural award, the Ruben Dario Cultural Order, during a ceremony in Managua, Nicaragua, on Tuesday Jan. 3, 2006.

William T. Vollmann

Author William T. Vollmann poses in his studio in Sacramento, Calif., with his novel "Europe Central," for which he won the National Book Award for fiction in 2005.

Ed McMahon

Former TV show host Ed McMahon attends a signing ceremony for his new book "Here's Johnny! My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show And 46 Years Of Friendship" at Book Soup on Dec. 8, 2005, in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images)

Sir Paul McCartney

Sir Paul McCartney reads to children from Princes Plain Primary School as he launches his first children's book "High In The Clouds" at Waterstone's, Piccadilly, in London on Dec. 14, 2005.

Sharon Osbourne

TV personality Sharon Osbourne signs copies of her autobiography "Extreme" at Waterstone's Oxford Street, London on Dec. 9, 2005.