Carol Wolper got her start as a screenwriter for Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Her first novel, The Cigarette Girl was a national bestseller and has been translated into ten languages. Her new book, Secret Celebrity, is due out in paperback this summer. Carol has signed a deal to write a third novel for Riverhead Books.

Secret Celebrity
After a decade in the business, Christine Chase is a freshly divorced thirty-five-year-old filmmaker suffering from a professional and personal slump. The answer to all her problems? Richard Gault, the famously elusive, mythically cool actor/musician-and the perfect documentary subject. But first Christine has to find the guy-even if it means looking under every wannabe, coulda-been, shoulda-been, has-been, never-was, and never-will-be in the wonderful widescreen world of Hollywood.

Carol Wolper's Summer Reading List

Book of Haikus
by Jack Kerouac
Fast food for big thinkers.

Important Things That Don't Matter
by David Amsden
A coming of age novel that re-defines the genre.

Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality
by Neal Gabler
Finally, someone acknowledges (and explains) that entertainment has conquered reality

How To Be Good
by Nick Hornby
Amazing how much Hornby understands about the inner workings of the female mind.

Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry
by Jim Harrison & Ted Kooser
Powerful poetry that can make you cry even if you're not a crier.

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