An Authorial Bookstore

You may have seen the piece in Publishers Weekly. Judy Blume, Bookseller, it was called. When I saw the title I just assumed it was just about one of those events when authors go into bookstores and take over for the employees for a day. Instead, what I found was that Ms. Blume opened up an independent bookstore with her husband as recently as two months ago and she helps run it regularly.*

Ms. Blume is hardly the first author to go into the bookstore business. Just off the top of my head I...