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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20041018
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The history of prison literature -- Socrates, Daniel Defoe, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Martin Luther King, to the recent prison diaries of novelist and disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer -- is a long and estimable one.

And word in New York publishing circles is that there may soon be an addition to that luminous line -- Martha Stewart. Her representatives are said to be shopping around a proposal for a Martha Stewart prison diary. The price being talked about, according to NewYorkmetro.com, is over $5 million, not bad pay for five months' work which is ...

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