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“Oprah on Oprah,” Newsweek, Jan. 8, 2008; Robert Feder, “Oprah Set to Launch Magazine Next Year,” Chicago Sun-Times, July 9, 1999; Robert Feder, “Give Her an O—Oprah Names New Magazine,” Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 13, 2000; Keith Kelly, “Oprah Magazine Goes with O,” New York Post, Jan. 13, 2000; Lillian Ross, “Oprah’s Understudy,” New Yorker, Apr. 24 and May 1, 2000; April Peterson, “Combining Mass and Class: The Story of O, The Oprah Magazine,” Journal of Magazine and New Media Research, Fall 2003; Marina Benjamin, “O is for Oprah and Over-the-Top,” Evening Standard, Apr. 26, 2000; “Oprah Talks to Nelson Mandela,” O, The Oprah Magazine, Apr. 2001; Carina Chocano, “Look Out O: Twins Go Glossy,” Chicago Sun-Times, Apr. 11, 2001; “Top Ten Articles in Oprah’s New Magazine,” Late Show with David Letterman, Apr. 10, 2000, www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow.

TV/DVDS: Beloved, 1998 (DVD); “Oprah Winfrey: Heart of the Matter,” A&E Biography special, aired Jan. 16, 2000; The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection (DVD set); “What Happened to the Mom Who Shopped Her Family Broke?” The Oprah Winfrey Show, aired Jan. 18, 2008.

INTERVIEWS: Confidential source, Nov. 26, 2007; Susan Karns, July 29, 2009; Peter Colasante, Dec. 17, 2007; Maureen Taylor, Dec. 17, 2007; Vernon Winfrey, Apr. 24, 2008; Nan Talese, Mar. 23, 2007; Tim Jones, Apr. 5, 2007; correspondence with Alex Kuczynski, Apr. 13, 2008.

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RECORDS: “Oprah’s Angel Network Fact Sheet,” The Oprah Winfrey Show press release, Sept. 1999; IRS forms 990 for Oprah’s Angel Network, 2002–2008, EIN 36-4231488; IRS forms 990 for Angel Network Support Foundation, 2002–2004, EIN 74-2962189; transcript, “Oprah” segment, 60 Minutes, CBS, Dec. 14, 1986; transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech at Miss Porter’s School, June 12, 1994; Illinois Secretary of State Corporation File Detail Report for The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, File no. 57496614; IRS forms 990-PF for The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, 2001–2007, and For A Better Life Foundation, 1998–2000, EIN 36-3976230; “Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls—South Africa Celebrates Its Official Opening,” TOWLAG press release, Jan. 2, 2007; IRS forms 990-PF for The Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation, 2002–2005, and The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation, 2006, 2007, EIN 74-3048315; documents in the case of Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane v. Oprah Winfrey et al., case no. 2:08-CV-4884 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

BOOKS: Robert Waldron, Oprah! (St. Martin’s Press, 1987); George Mair, Oprah Winfrey: The Real Story (Birch Lane Press, 1994); Peter Frumkin, Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy (University of Chicago Press, 2006); Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Finding Oprah’s Roots (Crown Publishers, 2007).

ARTICLES: Andrew Gumbel, “Oprah Becomes First Black Woman to Join Billionaires’ Club,” Los Angeles Times, Mar. 1, 2003; “Oprah Comes Home,” Kosciusko Star-Herald, Nov. 15, 1998; “Oprah Winfrey Reveals the Real Reason Why She Stayed on TV,” Jet, Nov. 24, 1997; “FAMU Habitat for Humanity Chapter Selected to Build Oprah House,” Tennessee Tribune, Apr. 16, 1998; Shawn Reeves, “The House That Oprah Built,” Habitat World, Oct./Nov. 1999; “Habitat Plans Six Houses in ’98,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan. 22, 1998; Jennifer Wulff and Mike Lipton, “These Are My Dream Girls,” People Weekly, Jan. 15, 2007; “Building Oprah Katrina Homes,” www.oprah.com; Mary Perez, “With Little Fanfare, Oprah’s Angel Network Is Quietly Helping Coast People and Communities Recover,” Biloxi-Gulfport Sun-Herald; Steve Johnson, “Oh, No, Oprah! Enough,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 23, 1998; Alex Ben Block, “Oprah on the Record,” TelevisionWeek, Apr. 19, 2004; “How Big Sister Oprah Opened Her Arms and Her Heart to Save 24 Ghetto Kids,” Star, Sept. 5, 1989; Bill Brashler, “Next on Oprah Ladies’ Home Journal, Aug. 1991; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,” Ms., Aug. 1986; “Bill Cosby Leads the Millionaire Entertainers,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 7, 1987; Marilynn Marchione, “Coast-to-Coast: U.S. Reaches Out,” Chicago Sun-Times, May