Based on threee years of research and reporting as well as 850 interview with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the most influential, powerful, adn admired public figures of our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era. Anyone who is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinary life and career will be fascinated and newly informed by the closely observed, detailed, and well-rounded potrait of her provided by Kitty Kelley's exhaustively researched book. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation of who Oprah really is beyond her public person and a fuller understanding of her important place in American cultural history.