Ready For Your Close-Up With Mr. DeMille?

When I was in my teens, my father saw Nelson DeMille on the Today show discussing the plausibility of his then-new novel, The Charm School.  Intrigued by the interview, Dad promptly purchased a copy, which was then devoured by himself, my mother and the rest of us in quick succession. In a few weeks we had become a family of DeMille fans.

We weren’t alone. DeMille’s most recent novel, Plum Island, was No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list for five weeks. The book has sold nearly 500,000 hard covers and more than one million paperback copies.

Read the entire article in the January 2000 issue