If you needed any more proof that TV and radio are the main factors in getting books to best seller status, here it is:
Nearly 3,000 years after his death, Homer is the best-selling poet in Britain thanks largely to Brad Pitt and “the Troy effect”, the country’s biggest online seller of books says.
The claims are based on online sales only; still, they’re very consistent with findings that young people are increasingly reading books spawned by TV shows.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.