Albright’s next book issues warning

Albright’s next book issues warning

NEW YORK

Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, is worried about democracy.

Albright’s next book, “Fascism,” is a warning that democratic governments are “fragile” and the United States under President Donald Trump is enduring its own crisis.

“Fascism” is part of a two-book deal with HarperCollins and will come out April 2018, the publisher told The Associated Press last week.

Her second book, not yet titled, will be a memoir about her years since leaving the State Department in 2001.

Albright, who served under President Bill Clinton, has written the memoirs “Prague Winter” and “Madam Secretary.”

‘Mockingbird’ to be issued as graphic novel

NEW YORK

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is going graphic.

An illustrated edition of Harper Lee’s beloved novel will be published in November 2018, HarperCollins announced last week.

The book will be drawn and adapted by British author-illustrator Fred Fordham, who worked on Philip Pullman’s graphic novel “The Adventures of John Blake.” Fordham’s literary agency, Andrew Nurnberg Associates, also works with Lee’s estate.

Lee, who died in 2016, had resisted alternate editions of her book until late in life. Only in 2014 did she permit an e-book of “Mockingbird.” The following year, she stunned the world by authorizing the release of a second novel, “Go Set a Watchman,” which was based on early draft of “Mockingbird.”

Associated Press