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Why, That’s Half a Hillary
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Business New Haven
3/5/2001
By: BNH
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Yale law Professor Stephen L. Carter signed a $4 million, two-book deal with Knopf Publishing Group last month after the manuscript of his first novel, more than 900 pages long, aroused a frenzy of interest and a bidding war in the New York publishing world, with four publishers bidding on the book. Less than a day after the book deal, Warner Brothers Pictures, in partnership with two other film companies, bought the film rights to the novel for an undisclosed sum.
“There's no question that this is what we would call an event in the publishing industry,” Paul Bogards, Knopf's executive director of publicity, told the Yale Daily News. “It's unusual for publishers to purse out a seven-figure advance for a first novel and doubly unusual” for movie companies to begin bidding on the same day.
The Emperor of Ocean Park, set for publication in May 2002, depicts a black law professor at an Ivy League college who investigates the death of his father, a prominent judge. The tale examines the tension between career and family, and parent-child relationships in the context of an upper middle-class black family, Bogards said.
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