Harry Houdini
Book on Harry Houdini Sold to Crown, Advance in the High Six Figures
Crown has acquired a non-fiction book by screenwriter David Jehar about the magician Harry Houdini, for an advance that Mr. Jehar said was in the “high six figures.”
Mr. Jehar, who was represented by literary agent Tina Bennett of Janklow & Nesbit, said his book will tell the story of Houdini’s campaign to discredit Margery Crandon, who made the front page of the New York Times in the 1920s as the first spiritual medium whose abilities had been verified by science.
The book, entitled The Witch of Lime Street, will be out in early 2010, Mr. Jehar said.
Crown editor Rick Horgan, who nabbed the book in a preempt, declined to comment.
Events for March 23, 2007
8:30 a.m. The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies and the New Labor Forum holds a breakfast forum featuring Jason Furman, director of The Hamilton Project, and Mark Levinson, senior fellow of The Economic Policy Institute, and moderated by Ed Ott, executive director of the New York City Labor Council, at the The Murphy Institute for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies at CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street. 10 a.m. The Tri-Level Task Force on Police Reform holds a hearing on police procedures featuring speakers Joseph Guzman, Trent Benefield and lawyer Sanford Rubenstein at Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, in Brooklyn. read more »
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