Publishers embrace short nonfiction, from presidents to science

Posted 3/8/08

NEW YORK – As he prepared a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, author Peter Ackroyd read through more than 20 volumes of Poe’s work and filled two file cabinet drawers with notes – more information than the most devoted fan could absorb in a …

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