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2007, www.transcipts.cnn.com; “Oprah Winfrey’s commencement address, Wellesley College, May 30, 1997,” www.wellesley.edu; Mark Thornton, “Grand Oprah-ning,” Kosciusko Star-Herald, Sept. 4, 2006; “Oprah Comes Home,” Kosciusko Star-Herald, Nov. 19, 1998; Jonathan Van Meter, “Looking for Oprah,” Oxford American, Apr./May 1999; “Kosciusko Prepares for Oprah’s Nov. 14 Visit,” Kosciusko Star-Herald, July 30, 2007; Bob Michals and Bob Hartlein, “Oprah’s Torment,” Star, Mar. 25, 2003; Molly Parker, “Relative: Winfrey Book Untrue,” Clarion-Ledger, April 20, 2010; Alex Heard, “Oprah’s Cousin Bashes Book,” The Daily Beast, April 22, 2010; Danny Shea, “Oprah Dismisses Kitty Kelley Book: ‘So-Called Biography,’ ” Huffington Post, April 19, 2010; Zondra Hughes, “Family Secrets: Oprah’s Mother Speaks Out,” N’Digo, May 6–12, 2010; Bob Michals, “The Uncle Oprah Accuses of Sexually Abusing Her,” National Enquirer, Sept. 9, 1992; Julia Lawlor, “The Other Oprah,” USA Weekend, June 2–4, 1989; Pearl Cleage, “Walking in the Light,” Essence, June 1991; Oprah’s Steady to Be Her Hubby,” USA Today, Nov. 9, 1992; People Weekly, Nov. 23, 1992; Elizabeth Sporkin et al., “Her Man Stedman,” People Weekly, Nov. 23, 1992; Robert Feder, “Jones Turns Misery into Ratings Circus,” Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 24, 1992.

TV/PODCAST: Alan Frio interview with Vernon and Barbara Winfrey, WMSV-TV, aired Feb. 12, 2007 (viewed at www.wmsv.com); The Oprah Winfrey Show, “Oprah at Auschwitz,” aired May 24, 2006; Oprah Winfrey speech at the Women’s Business Development Center luncheon, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 27, 2006 (mp3 downloaded from www.odeo.com/audio/2003955/play on Nov. 13, 2006).

INTERVIEWS: Brooks Parker, Apr. 29, 2008; Chris Clark, Apr. 23, 2008; Vernon Winfrey, Apr. 22, 2008; Paul Moore, Apr. 21, 2008; Katie Rawls, Apr. 21, 2008; correspondence with confidential source, Feb. 18, 2009; Jewette Battles, July 31, 2007, Aug. 14, 2007, and correspondence with Jewette Battles, Apr. 29, 2008, and Oct. 8, 2008; Katharine Carr Esters, July 30, 2007 (along with Jewette Battles), Aug. 1, 2007, Sept. 11, 2007, and Feb. 5, 2008; Jo Baldwin, July 14, 2010, and correspondence with Jo Baldwin, July 15, 16, 20, and 27, Aug. 17, and Sept. 14, 2010; Nancy Green, July 30, 2007; James van Sweden, Dec. 12, 2007, and Dec. 27, 2007.

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RECORDS: “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” King World press release, 1987; documents in the case of Colleen M. Raleigh v. Harpo, Inc. and Oprah Winfrey, case no. 94L-13511, Circuit Court of Cook County; death certificate, Jeffrey Lee, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services; transcript, testimony of Paul Natkin, on Aug. 15, 2000, in the case of Paul Natkin and Stephen Green v. Oprah Winfrey et al., case no. 1:99-cv-05367, United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois; transcript, “Headlines That Shocked the Nation: Mexican Satanic Cult Murders,” The Oprah Winfrey Show, aired May 1, 1989; documents from the files of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Greater Chicago Regional Office, concerning reaction to The Oprah Winfrey Show, May 1, 1989, and the meeting with Jewish leaders, May 9, 1989.

BOOKS: Mark Mathabane, Kaffir Boy in America (Free Press, 1990); Jecquin D. Irwin, My Life After Oprah (self-published, 2006, Kindle ed.); Paul Natkin and Stephen Green, To Oprah with Love (New Millennium Press, 2002); Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987).

ARTICLES: Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,” Ms., Aug. 1986; Richard Zoglin, “Lady with a Calling,” Time, Aug. 8, 1988; Cheryl Lavin, “It’s All Going Oprah’s Way,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 19, 1985; Yardena Arar, “Winfrey’s Talk Show Makes National Debut,” Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Sept. 8, 1986; John Carmody, “The TV Column,” Washington Post, Aug. 26, 1986; Mel Novit, “The Women Behind Oprah,” Baltimore Sun, Mar. 22, 1987; P. J. Bednarski, “All About Oprah Inc.,” Broadcasting and Cable, June 24, 2005; John Dempsey, “Winfrey Agrees to Produce Her Own Show,” Variety, Aug. 14, 1988; Marla Donato, “One Last Food Fling with Oprah,” Chicago Tribune, Feb. 6, 1985; Barbara Grizzuti