Doctor Spock's book did not receive much notice from the media when it was published in nineteen forty- six.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

More than fifty million copies of Doctor Spock's "Baby and Child Care" book have been sold since it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

In nineteen thirty-five, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'

VOA: special.2010.03.21

David Crystal is a British linguist who has written more than one hundred books, including the book "Language and the Internet."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The book says the saying began because a competitor's face was cleaned with a cloth towel or other material.

VOA: special.2010.11.21

The book gets its title from something Atticus Finch was told in his childhood when his father gave him a gun.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

We found it in a baby book. And then Michael we named after my husband's good friend and my father."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

An editor at a publishing house encouraged her to write a book about the sea for the general public.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

In a book about her life, Nina Simone wrote that everything that happened to her as a child involved music.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

His latest book, "Circling the Bases: Essays on the Challenges and Prospects of the Sports Industry" will be published in September.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

To write the book, Ruth Krauss asked very small children how they would define words like "face," "dog" and "party."

VOA: special.2009.10.05

He had a system. He would describe characters and plots, then have ghostwriters expand those ideas into a book.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

The book is a history of science, professional morals and the human story behind a famous line of cells.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

In nineteen ninety, first lady Barbara Bush's Springer spaniel Millie told about her life in the White House in "Millie's Book."

VOA: special.2009.02.23