Kitty Kelly, Queen of the Unauthorized Biography, has done it again. Out this week is her 525 page-turning biography of Oprah. Plan for brouhaha. According to the publisher, “readers will come away with a greater appreciation of who Oprah really is beyond her public persona and a fuller understanding of her important place in American cultural history.” Huffington Post has excerpts from the book in which Vernon Winfrey, Oprah’s barber dad, is quoted as trashing Gayle, Stedman, and Oprah. USA TODAY writer Craig Wilson (who did a great piece on me garage saling) has an interesting look at Kitty, including his observation that Kitty’s favorite cartoon in her Georgetown mansion’s powder room shows Saddam Hussein in a Baghdad bunker, Kelley parachuting from the sky. “Run for your lives!” he’s yelling. “It’s Kitty Kelley!” Run, Oprah, run! Kitty drops in tomorrow… and she’s already approaching #1 on Amazon.
