Book focuses on Jackie Kennedy’s years as a reporter
“Camera Girl,” an upcoming book on Jacqueline Kennedy’s early years as a columnist, draws on newspaper archives and interviews with friends and colleagues.
“Camera Girl: How Miss Bouvier Used Imagination & Subversion To Invent Jackie Kennedy” is scheduled to come out in 2021, according to Gallery Books, which would have been the 66th wedding anniversary of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy. The author is Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a leading historian of first ladies whose previous books include “Kennedy White House.”
Before marrying Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times Herald from 1951-53. One of her interview subjects was Kennedy, who at the time was a senator from Massachusetts. They were married on Sept. 12, 1953.
Spanish edition of ‘Crawdads’ out next month
Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdads Sing,” the million-selling novel about a young girl’s life in a North Carolina coastal marsh, is coming out in the U.S. in a Spanish-language edition.
Vintage Espanol, a Penguin Random House imprint, reported that “La Chica Salvaje” (“wild girl” in English) will be published Oct. 29 as a paperback, e-book and audiobook.
“Where the Crawdads Sing” was released in 2018 and has since sold more than 3 million copies, remaining so popular in hardcover that no English-language paperback has come out. Its many fans include actress Reese Witherspoon, who selected the novel for her book club.
Owens previously worked on such nonfiction books as “Cry of the Kalahari” and “The Eye of the Elephant,” co-written with then-husband Mark Owens.
Erik Larson’s next book centers on Nazi blitz
Erik Larson’s next book tells a story he knows has been heard before.
“The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz,” which comes out next March, is set during the Nazi bombing of London in 1940-41. Countless books and movies have documented those fateful months and Winston Churchill’s call to “stand up to” Hitler, so that time would be remembered as the British empire’s “finest hour.”
But Larson said in a recent interview that he felt there were ways to dramatize those events that have yet to be fully “exploited.” He is drawing upon everything from the diary of Mary Churchill, the prime minister’s daughter, to intelligence reports and other materials only recently declassified.
Larson is best known for the million-selling “The Devil in the White City.”
— Associated Press
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