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Norway's Magnus Carlsen , reigning World Chess Champion, plays against India's Viswanathan Anand at the Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 in February.

Walt Disney came up with Mickey Mouse on a train. Same thing with J.K. Rowling, who says Harry Potter popped into her head fully-formed on a crowded car.

The father of Newtown, Conn. school shooter Adam Lanza told a writer for The New Yorker that he and his ex-wife, Nancy, never suspected their son was dangerous.

Neil Young is reportedly preparing to reveal his long-awaited Pono digital music service and portable music player at SXSW in Austin, Texas later this week.

Age: 43 Job: Senior Assistant District Attorney, Muscogee County; has accepted a position as a partner with Hatcher Stubbs and starts in July.

Mindy Kaling just can't be stopped. Hot on the heels of the announcement that FOX is renewing her cult hit comedy "The Mindy Project" for a Season 3, Kaling revealed some other exciting news at Austin's SXSW festival on Sunday : She's writing another book.

David Worsdale is following in the footsteps of Harry Potter author JK Rowling by writing a children's fantasy novel.

That's what world-renowned novelist, screenwriter and children's author Neil Gaiman said to a sold-out crowd of students and residents at Rowan University's Pfleeger Hall on Friday night.

The Sacramento Bee Book Club will open its 2014 series of author appearances with Bay Area memoirist Kelly Corrigan , at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St., Sacramento .

Since there's no end-all-be-all 'best seller' list, BWW Books has rounded up both The New York Times' top sellers as well as Amazon's - providing you with your one-stop look at this week's top reads! J. D. Robb's CONCEALED IN DEATH claimed the No.

Hilary Mantel, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, said Henry VIII's henchman Thomas Cromwell, played by Ben Miles in the stage versions of both her novels, is "someone who would knife you".

HARDBACK FICTION 1. "Private L.A.," James Patterson and Mark Sullivan. 2. "The Goldfinch," Donna Tartt.

2."The Sixth Extinction," by Elizabeth Kolbert How human impact on the environment will cause the next mass destruction of the planet.

When she was 10 years old, her mother told her that when they lived in Africa, people could fly.

Detectives hunting a balaclava-clad gunman who shot a City trader dubbed the Wolf of Shenfield have arrested a man.

Will Smith via his production company Overbrook Entertainment, along with partner James Lassiter, will produce an adaptation of the upcoming graphic novel, The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, which Sony Pictures picked up the rights to.

According to Woman's World, Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling has been voted most inspirational businesswoman in a survey of UK freelancers, bringing in 23% of the vote.

Several books released in the past few years - notably Blaine Harden's "Escape from Camp 14" and Barbara Demick's "Nothing to Envy" - give a vivid, if partial, picture of repression and trauma in North Korea.

A CONVICTED drug smuggler has won the right of access to restricted areas of Moorabbin airport in his work as a courier driver for an airfreight company SOCCER chiefs fail the follow through on tough threats to hit rogue supporters where it hurts most despite A-League fans causing another major disturbance.

Author Emily Giffin was among those included in a prestigious group of accomplished writers labeled "Atlanta's literary society" in a Vanity Fair spread.