TY - BOOK AU - Kelley,Kitty TI - Oprah: a biography SN - 0307394867 AV - PN1992.4.W56 K45 2010 U1 - 791.4502/8092B 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Crown Publishers KW - Winfrey, Oprah. KW - Television personalities KW - United States KW - Biography KW - African American television personalities KW - Actors KW - African American actors N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [496]-498) and index N2 - Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time. Anyone who is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinary life and career will be fascinated and newly informed by the closely observed, detailed, and well-rounded portrait of her provided by Kitty Kelley's exhaustively researched book. 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 ER -