Two Ohio women held captive have book deal

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NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the three Ohio women held captive for years in a Cleveland house have a
book deal.Vikingannounced Monday that it has acquired the planned book by Amanda Berryand Gina DeJesus. The
book is currently untitled and is scheduled tocome out in 2015.Berry and DeJesus are working with
PulitzerPrize-winning Washington Post reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan.Negotiations were handled by
Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whoseclients have ranged from President Barack Obama to Amanda
Knox.Berry,DeJesus and Michelle Knight were rescued in May and their kidnapper,Ariel Castro, was arrested
and eventually sentenced to life in prison.He was found hanged in his cell in September.Knight is working on
her own memoir, which Weinstein Books plans to publish next spring.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All
rightsreserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.NEW YORK (AP) — Two
of the three Ohio women held captive for years in a Cleveland house have a book deal.Vikingannounced Monday
that it has acquired the planned book by Amanda Berryand Gina DeJesus. The book is currently untitled and is
scheduled tocome out in 2015.Berry and DeJesus are working with PulitzerPrize-winning Washington Post
reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan.Negotiations were handled by Washington attorney Robert Barnett,
whoseclients have ranged from President Barack Obama to Amanda Knox.Berry,DeJesus and Michelle Knight were
rescued in May and their kidnapper,Ariel Castro, was arrested and eventually sentenced to life in prison.He
was found hanged in his cell in September.Knight is working on her own memoir, which Weinstein Books plans
to publish next spring.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rightsreserved. This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten orredistributed.

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