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guest: a ghost writer is an author who writes in the first person of another person. host: how d you get into that business? guest: it s a long story. the short end of the story is i was an advertising guy after college and after graduate school, and i made up my mind i was going to go meet ray charles and talk him into letting me do an authorized biography of him, because i wanted to win the pulitzer prize and the nobel prize, and i didn t know anything about ghost writing. so i had a hard time introducing myself to him and sort of getting to him. but anyway, i was able to do it through my tenacity. and when i did this agency had met told me, you know, you want to do his autobiography. and i said, no, i don t. and he said, yeah, you do. i said well, you know, i don t know how to do that. i don t know what a ghost writer does. and he, and he said, well, you ll earn a lot more money if you do can if you do a ghost written book because there s a much larger market f ....
summer reading list. send us your choices on twitter or you can also post it on our facebook page or you can send an e-mail to us. whauz on your summer reader list? what is? booktv wants to know. we talked to amy force, whose print profiles mildrid brown, founder of omaha star, the oldest running paper ran by a black person. she was a woman who cared and from north omaha. she was the omaha star. you would ask and they would say synonymous with the newspaper. it as a black newspaper pitched toward the black community but a lot of people pick it up. is the longest running black newspaper founded by a black woman in the united states. brown s background started as an elementary school teacher in birmingham alabama and she had second graders, third graders and fourth graders. her husband was a pharmacist, one of the few who had a doctorate and they got married and moved to chicago and she started going to classes and they went to des moines and she went to more coll ....
average, children are hard-working, and women are strong. as a humorist, garrison keillor is often compared with mark twain and will rogers. like mr. rogers, garrison keillor has made multiple visits the national press club. he spoke in 1986, and 1987 and spoke again in 1994 after 21 years we are so glad he is back again and clearly he was waiting until minnesota was in charge of the place before he was going to come back. garrison keillor is in the nation s capital for performances today and tomorrow and this summer he hits the road for up prairie home companion s america the beautiful. this is a tour of 30 cities in 36 days. his latest book, the keillor reader just came out in softcover, and on july 4th, a prairie home companion will celebrate its forty-onest anniversary with a live album broadcast in st. paul and mcallister college. that was the location of the first broadcast of a prairie home companion on july 6th, 1974. garrison keillor is active in democratic ....
twitter feeds or sign up for the stormwatch app on your smart phone or tablet. leon: we got breaking news coming and on behalf of the government s office of personnel management. opm announced as many as 25 million people may be affected by the breach. jennifer donnelly is standing by with the latest. these hacking hits just keep on coming. jennifer: that s right, and this developing news has 25 million people asking if they are among the massive number of people who very likely have their identity stolen by hackers. that number of 25 million means the number of those impacted by the breach at opm is six times more than originally thought. breaking some of that down, you know wether or not you fall into this category, people whose information was, must, government officials said the bulk of the group had applied for background investigations. almost 2 million of their family members like their wives or husbands or people with whom they lived, who, by the way never app ....
south. but with this cold front having flipped slue during overnight we re going to see that drier air mass move in. it s in the first alert seven day forecast. right now it s time for another look at timesaver traffic and larry miller. thanks erica. your right now 6:00. metro riders doing really okay little seasickness there right? we re doing really well this morning, no issues on the trains or buses this morning. but it s out in oakton we re keeling a crease owe on the accident that s eye on the accident that s closed fox mill road at fox vail drive this morning. should be there within next moment or so. so coming up in ten minutes a live picture, that s the goal but traffic is being diverted on to hunt road. so for commuters out in oakton you ll need to be mindful of this that the morning. a live look from the cameras this morning shows us this is eastern tv kenilworth avenue and eastern avenue. inbound on 50 no problems. coming down from areas like frederic ....