Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVEN BEFORE HILLARY CLINTON'S NEW BOOK, IT TAKES A VILlage, hit the stores, Washington heard the rumor: the book was ghosted. The charge so exasperated the White House that several journalists, including TIME correspondent James Carney, were invited to Mrs. Clinton's private study to check the manuscript, including legal pads covered with her handwriting. Says Carney: "There is no doubt Mrs. Clinton wrote great parts of the book...
...Recent manuscript and inscription finds indicate that such biblical names as Joseph and Judas were commonly used in the 1st century. One of those discoveries is especially intriguing. In 1990, diggers in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City uncovered an ossuary (repository for bones) with the inscription JOSEPH SON OF CAIAPHAS. This marked the first archaeological evidence that the high priest Caiaphas, who according to the Gospels presided at the Sanhedrin's trial of Jesus, was a real person. So, indisputably, was Pilate. In 1961, diggers in Caesarea found the fragment of a plaque indicating that a building...
...Horse Whisperer, a romantic yarn in which a Montana cowboy with a mystical gift for communicating with horses has a torrid affair with a British-born magazine editor from New York, caused a stir in publishing and Hollywood circles as soon as the manuscript began circulating last fall. Robert Redford and Disney ponied up $3 million for movie rights; Dell Publishing won North American book rights for $3.15 million; and foreign rights topped $2 million. And that was before Evans had even finished writing the book...
Back in London, Evans retreated to his cramped home office to start writing. When he was half finished, with mortgage payments overdue, he showed the book to an agent friend to get his opinion. The 215-page manuscript, circulated to publishers last October, sparked a frenzy of interest. Three different Hollywood producers agreed to pay $3 million for it. Evans eventually sold the book to Robert Redford after a soulful phone conversation. "He told me a story about riding in the mountains and seeing an antelope, a kind of communion they shared," Evans recalls. "He knew the book inside...
...people who work with him can say it just as nicely. "Michael is interested in issues," observes Sonny Mehta, editor in chief at Knopf, "whether they grow out of science, out of society, out of what is happening to us. When Michael delivers a manuscript, we are all struck by how much we are made to think, and how much information there is, and how well researched it is. I'm always learning something every time I work with Michael." Notes Lynn Nesbit, his longtime literary agent: "You can never predict with Michael, because his range of interests...