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Laurence Kirshbaum also worked at Random House and eventually became the chairman and chief executive of the Time Warner Book Group.

The lawyer Harry M. Brittenham, who has represented many of Hollywood’s most powerful executives and companies, is about to publish his latest graphic novel, “Shifter.”

The book, which is scheduled for release in 2016, will focus on The Washington Star, where Mr. Bernstein started in the business at 16.

Book critics are divided over the quality of Dave Eggers’s highly anticipated novel “The Circle,” which has started a debate on whether technology is invading our lives.

Mr. Clancy’s books were successfully transformed into blockbuster Hollywood films, including “Patriot Games,” “The Hunt for Red October” and “Clear and Present Danger.”

The deal will make the publishers’ backlist books available to monthly subscribers in a Netflix-style service.

Solomon Northup told a story of escaping from slavery in 1853, and for decades scholars have been trying to untangle the truth of his account.

Next year, the Man Booker Prize will be open to any work originally written in English and published in Britain, bringing concerns that American novels will dominate.

A novel praised for its dramatic depiction of Southern life in the mid-1850s became a best seller, but its tantalizing secret — the author’s identity — may have been solved.

Ten nominees for the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature were announced, and winners will be revealed Nov. 20.