Novel Auction Offers Chance to
Novel Auction Offers Chance to Buy Immortality
Best-selling novelists Robert Harris (''Enigma''), Ken Follett (''Eye of the Needle''), Pat Barker (''The Ghost Road'') and Zadie Smith (''White Teeth'') are among the authors agreeing to name a character in forthcoming books after those prepared to pay up for the privilege. The second "Immortality Auction'' takes place on Oct. 16 in London at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, with all proceeds going to charity.
I'm surprised author Fay Weldon isn't participating.