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Wideshot of Oprah Winfrey taping her talk show in Central Park2. Wideshot of Winfrey greeting New York Mayor Michael BloombergAP TelevisionNew York, 13 April 20103. SOUNDBITE (English) Kitty...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 18 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wideshot of Oprah Winfrey taping her talk show in Central Park\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wideshot of Winfrey greeting New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 13 April 2010\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kitty Kelley/Author \"Oprah: A Biography\" on Winfrey''s family members\u003cbr/\u003e\"They have a complicated relationship with Oprah that she has exaggerated her abject poverty but I don''t diminish that because she was born poor in Kosciusko, Mississippi, but it wasn''t quite as bad and her aunt Katharine again says that these are exaggerations, that Oprah likes to embellish because it makes the story more dramatic and Oprah is an actress. We can''t ever forget that she is an actress.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 13 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e4. Cutaway of Oprah Winfrey talking to a reporter at the Toronto Film Festival premiere of \"Precious\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 13 April 2010\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kitty Kelley/Author \"Oprah: A Biography\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"I did do a lot of research for this book but the biggest source of information, the biggest source, was Oprah herself because after writing her several letters and realizing that she wasn''t going to give me an interview, I then assembled every interview that she''s given in the United States and the United Kingdom, in the English language for the last 25 years. I had 2,763 files but once I spent all that time collecting the interviews and then cataloguing them, I had a great resource. Oprah was the best resource on Oprah possible. Now, many of the stories that she told they didn''t always jive with the recollections of others but it still made for a fascinating person.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, California, 7 March 2010\u003cbr/\u003e6. Left, Pete Docter, Oscar Winner-Director \"up\", standing next to, right, Oprah Winfrey at the Governors Ball\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 13 April 2010\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kitty Kelley/Author \"Oprah: A Biography\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"I did 850 interviews. I didn''t use them all. Most of them are on the record. I interviewed everyone from former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O''Connor, Phil Donahue, Gloria Steinem, Erica Jong, Oprah''s father, Vernon Winfrey, Oprah''s aunt Katharine Esters, classmates who went to high school with her, classmates who went to college with her. Colleagues who worked with her in Nashville, in Baltimore. I interviewed past and present employees who work for her now so I really tried to get a full and comprehensive picture of this woman.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eHenley-on-Klip, South Africa, 2 Jan 2007\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wideshot of Oprah Winfrey at a press conference about the opening of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy \u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Oprah Winfrey/Talk show host\u003cbr/\u003e''''And so for me, I will have to say, I am going to say this to the audience today. This has been a long time coming, this is not just for me some small idea this is supreme moment of destiny for me. I have been coming to this day my entire life. And I have always known because I was taught by my father, that to whom much is given much is expected.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wideshot of press conference\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wideshot of 450 school girls applauding Oprah Winfrey on stage\u003cbr/\u003e12. Midshot of Winfrey and Nelson Mendela on stage\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 13 April 2010\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kitty Kelley/Author \"Oprah: A Biography\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"This book has been the hardest to promote because she is so loved and she''s also very much feared and national shows have turned me down. Barbara Walters, Charlie Rose, Larry King, because they don''t want to offend Oprah.\"\u003cbr/\u003eReporter: Is that frustrating for you?\"\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Kitty Kelley/Author \"Oprah: A Biography\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I understand it. I certainly understand it. It''s disappointing.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 18 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e14. Midshot of Oprah Winfrey on stage in Central Park taping an episode of \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, 13 April 2010\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Kitty Kelley/Author \"Oprah: A Biography\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"Many, many years ago she wrote her own autobiography and on the eve of publication, about a week or so before, she withdrew it. In that book she was prepared to tell a lot of her secrets. She went into great detail in that manuscript about the men who had sexually molested her, the teenage promiscuity that she went through, even to the point of labeling herself a prostitute. At the very last minute she pulled that book back because she just was not prepared to tell those secrets.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eKokstad, South Africa, 16 March 2007\u003cbr/\u003e16. Pan up of Oprah Winfrey dancing with students at the opening of the Seven Fountains Primary School \u003cbr/\u003eCelebrity biographer Kitty Kelley has written about a number of famous names including Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Nancy Reagan and the Britain Royal Family yet the writer says none other has been harder to promote than talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Kelley''s book \"Oprah: A Biography\" is now in stores.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This book has been the hardest to promote because she is so loved and she''s also very much feared and national shows have turned me down. Barbara Walters, Charlie Rose, Larry King, because they don''t want to offend Oprah.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKelley says her biography of Winfrey was not written in haste. She worked on it for four years, interviewed more than 800 people including family members like the media mogul''s sister, aunt and Vernon Winfrey, a man who was once in a relationship with Oprah''s mother and is listed on her birth certificate as her father. He raised Oprah as his daughter (although he''s not her biological father.)\u003cbr/\u003eThe writer alleges Winfrey''s family members say she exaggerates her poor childhood.\u003cbr/\u003e\"They have a complicated relationship with Oprah that she has exaggerated her abject poverty but I don''t diminish that because she was born poor in Kosciusko, Mississippi, but it wasn''t quite as bad and her aunt Katharine again says that these are exaggerations, that Oprah likes to embellish because it makes the story more dramatic and Oprah is an actress. We can''t ever forget that she is an actress.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKelley also says her book is probably viewed as an irritant to Winfrey who years ago was close to publishing her own autobiography, but cancelled it last minute.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Many, many years ago she wrote her own autobiography and on the eve of publication, about a week or so before, she withdrew it. In that book she was prepared to tell a lot of her secrets. 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