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Celebrity Biography Dead? I Don't Think So.

Posted at 4:44PM Sunday 17 Jan 2010

Glum faces all round at Waterstone's. The celebrity biography, they say, is on the way out, hitting sales and forcing the departure of its managing director. There was similar gloom a week earlier from the Bookseller on the death of the celebrity memoir.

Except that some of us are seeing a very different picture.

Guardian

Independent

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