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Joanne Rowling -- better known as J.K. Rowling -- joins Diane to discuss the amazing success of her series of books featuring a young wizard-in-training called Harry Potter. Her books have made words like "quidditch" and "muggles" part of the schoolyard vocabulary for millions of kids. (The "Harry Potter" books are published by Scholastic.)
J. K. Rowling, author
During his second term in office, President Ronald Reagan selected Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris as his authorized biographer. Fourteen years later, his just-published "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan" (Random House) has sparked considerable controversy over Morris' use of a semi-fictional narrator to tell Reagan's life story. He joins Diane to talk about writing "Dutch" and the response he's gotten to the book.
Edmund Morris, author and Presidential historian
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