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BEA scoops up Shatner books

By Carolyn Kellogg
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William Shatner is a multifaceted cultural icon. He’s not just ‘Star Trek’s’ Captain Kirk, or the Priceline spokesman, or a recording artist (whose 2004 CD was titled ‘Has Been’), or that guy on ‘Boston Legal,’ or the guy who in a 1963 episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’ spotted a monster on the wing of a plane. He’s also an author -- credited on more than 20 books -- with a new autobiography, ‘Up Till Now.’

Shatner was at the BookExpo America convention in Los Angeles on Saturday to sign the hardcover editions; fans queued up early on the convention floor. The publisher had brought along 260 copies, which were handed out to those waiting in line. It took the company’s publicists 26 minutes to pass them all out, but there weren’t enough books to go around.

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That’s quite a rate: 10 books per minute, or one Shatner autobiography every six seconds.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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