1.   Authors will give up writing books, and merely provide legitimizing publicity blurbs for celebrity biographies.

2.   Avoiding the tacky tell-all tone of most celebrity biographies, the book assumed an understated style that made its emotions compelling.

3.   Celebrity biographies, often based on clippings, may have no footnotes at all.

4.   In nonfiction, celebrity biographies, memoirs and books on government reform are selling fast.

5.   Most celebrity biographies focus more on the celebrity gossip than the family history of their subjects.

6.   Read straight through, the average celebrity biography leaves you feeling glutted and a bit tainted.

7.   Still, a celebrity biography is a celebrity biography, and some do very well.