1.   And it continues to take shots at Levitt, its old opponent, now semiretired in Westport, Conn., and writing a book about his experiences.

2.   Beside book writing, Packer is writing screenplays.

3.   A painfully slow writer, Berendt spent eight years visiting Savannah as the story unfolded, and another seven writing the book.

4.   All of that, she said, was to prepare her for a career in book writing.

5.   Her agent, Andrew Wylie, told the Times that she is writing the book all by herself in longhand.

6.   Holohan is new to book writing but not to writing.

7.   She was compiling a cooking dictionary and writing a book on needlework when she died of childbed fever after the birth of her fourth child.

8.   The interviews were used for research, case studies and book writing.

9.   Telling how America treats some refugees was a central reason for writing the book, along with educating Western readers about genital mutilation, the co-authors say.