Trivia:
Which best-selling female author did Truman Capote describe as a "truck driver in drag?"
What was the first book featured by Oprah's book circle?
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About the Author... 
Award-winning author, Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II has been writing books for the past twenty-five years. Among them have been selections of the Book-of-the Month Club, Reader's Digest Condensed Books, "Today's Best Nonfiction," The Select Reader Book Club, the Lawyers Literary Bookclub, and the Easton Press Leatherbound Series of classics. His books have been published in many foreign languages and have been serialized in newspapers and magazines both here and abroad and optioned for television and movie productions.
Mr. Vanderbilt has appeared on television and radio programs across the country to talk about writing and publishing. He is also listed in "Who's Who in America," "Contemporary Authors," and "International Authors and Writers Who's Who." He lives in New Jersey.
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The Making of a Bestseller strips right to the essence of how authors have done it--from Chekhov to Cheever, from Dickens to Doctorow--how their books have traveled from their heads right into readers' hands and hearts.
And in its entertaining dissection and examination of each element that goes into the making of a bestseller, this is a book no writer should be without.
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1. What do pirates, bestsellers, Golden Retrievers, Cape Cod, Commodore Vanderbilt, the Whydah, writing, Newport, Rhode Island, publishing and Gloria Vanderbilt have in common?
Answer: Books by Arthur Vanderbilt
Golden Days: Memories of a Golden Retriever
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
2. What book did President Ronald Reagan unwittingly launch to the bestseller lists by recommending to Washington staffers as a "perfect yarn?"
ANSWER: "The Hunt for Red October"
3. Which author was humble enough to admit, "What happened to me was pure dumb luck--I'm not the new Hemingway."
ANSWER: Tom Clancy
4. Which best-selling female author did Truman Capote describe as a "truck driver in drag?"
ANSWER: Jacqueline Susann
5. What was the first book featured by Oprah's book circle?
ANSWER: "The Deep End of the Ocean" by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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