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Los Angeles, Jan 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) American investigative journalist Kitty Kelley has written the unauthorized biography of the talk show queen – Oprah Winfrey. She spent 3 years researching and collecting information for the subject, from over the 800 interviews, that she conducted. The release of the book is planned for 13th April. The Random House Publishing firm - Crown is publishing it. For the initial release, 500,000 copies have been printed.

“This is the first complete portrait of her - it will reveal Oprah as she has never been seen before,” said Crown rep David Drake. “It will cover all aspects of her life — It will be evenhanded. Kelley understands Oprah’s cultural importance and that is something she covers at length.” “We are excited to be publishing the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era,” says Tina Constable, Vice President, Publisher, Crown Publishers.

Kitty is the writer of many unauthorized celebrity biographies, which have been bestsellers in their own right. However her critics describe her as a ‘poison-pen’ biographer, as she uses a lot of unflattering aspects of the celeb’s life in her writings. Her writings have also been described as ‘Kitty Litter’ and “professional sensationalist”.