Ann Coulter

The brilliant and controversial Ann Coulter is the guest author on the three-hour interview on Book TV on C-SPAN today. The program will likely air again tonight. I recommend it strongly. Most of the callers were male, and men do seem to like her, perhaps for her long blond hair, perhaps for her talking sense.

All of her books, eight or nine in number, have been bestsellers. How many writers can you say that about? We have met a few here onblog: Dick Francis and P. D. James, for example. But theirs were fiction. Coulter’s writing is nonfiction with numerous footnotes. She does a great deal of research. You can read about her on the Net and you can watch the show, but I want to point out one thing she said [not verbatim]: if you are a Christian, you are not afraid to speak out about what is wrong. She and her two older brothers grew up in a Christian family and she is grateful for that. She is a lawyer but now writes full time, books and a weekly column. She has a condo in New York and a house in Florida. She has never married, but has been engaged a few times. She is the classic example of a woman too smart for almost any man. Give her a listen.

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