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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13If You Can't Trust Your Publisher . . .
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- Kitty Kelley, who has compiled best-selling and decidedly
- unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth
- Taylor and Frank Sinatra, will next month finish the manuscript
- of her life of Nancy Reagan. And, after four years of work and
- some 900 interviews, the tattletale author is worried about --
- of all things -- leaks to gossip columnists. Editors at Simon
- & Schuster, which paid a reported $3 million advance for the
- book, have naturally been eager to look at chapters as Kelley
- completed them. Fearful that contents might get out, she has
- refused to send any portion of the manuscript to Manhattan.
- Instead, S&S editors have regularly shuttled to Washington,
- where they have perused pages in Kelley's Georgetown living
- room and then gone back to Manhattan empty-handed. Once she
- submits her final version, the author is at the mercy of
- Manhattan's notorious literary gossip. The book is scheduled to
- appear in the fall of 1991 -- although details may well hit
- print a lot earlier.
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