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Ditties,” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 29, 1985; “Oprah Returns to Nashville as Millionaire,” Tennessean, Aug. 8, 1985; Lou Cedrone, “Winfrey Story Only Beginning,” Baltimore Evening Sun, Mar. 18, 1986; Luther Young, “Oprah,” Baltimore Sun, Feb. 21, 1986; Jeffrey Strickler, “Winfrey, Having Achieved Quite a Bit, Expects ‘Great Things from Myself,’ ” Minneapolis Star Tribune, Apr. 18, 1986; R. C. Smith, “She Once Trashed Her Apartment to Make a Point,” TV Guide, Aug. 30, 1986; E. R. Shipp, “Blacks in Heated Debate Over ‘The Color Purple,’ ” New York Times, Jan. 27, 1986; Josephine Trescott, “Passions Over ‘Purple,’ ” Washington Post, Feb. 5, 1986; Roger Ebert, “The Top Ten Films of 1985,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 29, 1985; Roger Ebert, “Hope Lives in a Character’s Truth,” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 28, 2004; Rose P. B. Venditti and Sylvia Badger, “Coming Home,” Baltimore News American, Feb. 21, 1986; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,” Woman’s Day, Oct. 1, 1986; Bill Zehme, “It Came from Chicago,” Spy, Dec. 1986; Stephanie Mansfield, “And Now, Heeeeeeere’s Oprah,” Washington Post, Oct. 21, 1986; Robert Kurson, “The Silent Treatment,” Chicago, July 2001; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; Tina Brown, “My New Mantra for 2009,” www.thedailybeast.com, Jan. 2, 2009; Tina Brown, “Is Michelle the New Oprah?” www.thedailybeast.com, Apr. 2, 2009; “Bad Press,” www.thedailybeast.com, Aug. 21, 2009; Lloyd Grove, “Oprah and the Sweat Lodge Guru,” www.thedailybeast.com, Oct. 23, 2009.

TV: Oprah Winfrey episode, E! The True Hollywood Story, aired Oct. 17, 2004.

INTERVIEWS: Alice Walker, Oct. 7, 2008; correspondence with confidential source, Dec. 5, 2007, and Dec. 12, 2007; Erica Jong, Dec. 17, 2006; confidential source, Nov. 9, 2007; Sandi Mendelson, Jan. 7, 2008; correspondence with Tina Brown’s assistant, Jan. 7, 2008.

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RECORDS: Transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech to American Women’s Economic Development Corporation conference, New York City, Feb. 25, 1989; Stedman Graham marriage records details, Tarrant County public access; verification of birth of Wendy Graham, Texas Department of State Health Services; documents in the case of Stedman Graham and Oprah Winfrey v. Extra Media, Inc., case no. 1:92-CV-02087, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; “Join the Team” form for Member Athletes, www.joinaad.com; IRS forms 990 for Athletes Against Drugs, 2002–2007, EIN 36-3463119.

BOOKS: Bill Adler, ed., The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey (Citadel Press, 1997); Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Stedman Graham, You Can Make It Happen (Fireside, 1998) and Build Your Own Life Brand (Free Press, 2001); Stedman Graham, “Whitesboro: A Hometown Remembered,” in Wendel A. White, Small Towns, Black Lives (The oyes Museum of Art, 2003).

ARTICLES: Timothy McDarrah, “Talk’s Not Cheap,” New York Post, Jan. 1, 1987; Lloyd Shearer, “Oprah Winfrey—How Rich?” Parade, Feb. 15, 1987; Stephen Viens, “Secret Ways That Oprah Windfall Enjoys Her Millions,” Star, Aug. 23, 1988; Alan Richman, “Oprah,” People Weekly, Jan. 12, 1987; “And Another,” Boston Globe, Mar. 1, 1988; Charles Whitaker, “The Most Talked-About TV Show Host,” Ebony, Mar. 1987; Aljean Harmetz, “Learning to Live with Runaway Fame,” New York Times, May 18, 1986; Alan G. Artner, “Oprah Winfrey,” Chicago Tribune, Jan. 10, 1988; Marla Donato, “One Last Food Fling with Oprah,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1985; Leslie Rubenstein, “Oprah! Thriving on Faith,” McCall’s, Aug. 1987; Elizabeth Sporkin et al., “Her Man Stedman,” People Weekly, Nov. 23, 1992; Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1989; “Oprah Winfrey,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 13, 1987; “Will Opulence Spoil Oprah?” Chicago Sun-Times, Mar. 1, 1988; “Oprah’s Best Friend, Gayle King, Lists 10,433-Square-Foot House in Greenwich, CT for $7.45M,” www.bergproperties.com/blog, July 7, 2008; Robert Feder, “Five More Reasons You Gotta Love Outrageous Oprah,” Chicago Sun-Times, Dec. 1, 1987; Nicole Sweeney, “When