NEWS
December 5, 2009
NEW YORK - A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature. The copy of "Tamerlane and Other Poems" had been estimated to sell Friday for between $500,000 and $700,000 at Christie's auction house in New York City. The previous record is believed to be $250,000 for a copy of the same book sold nearly two decades ago. The 40-page collection of poems was published in 1827. Poe wrote the book shortly after moving to Boston to start his literary career.
NEWS
By Lisa Breslin and Lisa Breslin,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | April 21, 2002
WHAT STARTED as a letter of advice to a daughter turning 30 blossomed into a commissioned book series for one Carroll County woman and her best friend. Finksburg resident Peggy Stout and Jean Aziz of Columbia have been friends for more than 25 years. Their friendship has been peppered with late-night talks and tears, with getting to know each other's families, and with swapping advice about raising children and the work world. Much of that advice, as well as wisdom gleaned from interviews with more than 50 women throughout the United States, is part of Stout and Aziz's first book, Wise Women Speak to the Woman Turning 30. The book is the first in a series that has been commissioned and marketed by Capital Books in Sterling, Va. Future books in the Wise Women Speak series will include advice about marriage, parenthood, and surviving a serious illness, surviving the loss of a loved one, retirement, and achieving balance in a busy life.
NEWS
August 22, 1999
Move over, Oprah. Now Reba has a book club -- and a role in a national literacy organization.Country singer Reba McEntire has become national spokeswoman for First Book, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that works with local literacy groups to provide new books and tutoring to needy children.Along with that role, there is Reba's First Book Club, a national program intended to "encourage children and their families to discover the magic of books, as well as help raise funds to buy new books for homeless and disadvantaged children across America."
NEWS
By BRADLEY OLSON and BRADLEY OLSON,SUN REPORTER | June 7, 2006
While David Danelo was in Iraq two years ago, he was "one of those guys" who wrote home about once a month to let friends and family know how things were going. As a Marine Corps captain in Fallujah -- an insurgent stronghold in the Sunni triangle -- he had plenty to say in his "updates from the front." The e-mails were passed around by friends and family and eventually caught the eye of Steven Pressfield, the author of Gates of Fire. The historical novel chronicles the Battle of Thermopylae, during which about 7,000 Greek allies held off millions of Persians in a mountain pass for three days in 480 B.C. Pressfield, whose work is popular with Marines, told Danelo he was a good writer, which made the young captain feel like "Babe Ruth had just told me I was a good baseball player."
NEWS
By Karen Nitkin and Karen Nitkin,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | March 20, 2005
By Maryland standards, this has been an unusually cold March. But to Havre de Grace resident Lucille Maistros, the brisk, windy days are no big deal. Maistros grew up in northern Vermont, where March is considered the dead of winter. "It's only 500 miles away, but up there it's going to look like January for another six weeks," she said last week. Her hometown, St. Johnsbury, just got 6 inches of snow, she said. Maistros describes her Vermont childhood in her first book, Growing Up Cold: a memoir of growing up cold, but longing to be cool, in 1950s Vermont.
BUSINESS
By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun | March 8, 2013
Joe Mechlinski, CEO and co-founder of Canton-based management consulting firm entreQuest, has worked with more than 400 businesses since starting the company 12 years ago. Last month, he released his first book, "Grow Regardless: Of Your Business' Size, Your Industry or the Economy … and Despite the Government. " Mechlinski — who grew up in Highlandtown and graduated from Patterson High School and Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics — describes his book as a "how-to guide for growing a small to midsize business in difficult economic times.