CARTER-CLARK v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC.


17 A.D.3d 241 (2005)

793 N.Y.S.2d 394

DARIA CARTER-CLARK, Appellant, v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC., et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

April 21, 2005.


Plaintiff is the Site Advisor for the adult literacy program of the New York Public Library Centers for Reading and Writing, Harlem Branch. She brought this action for, inter alia, libel and negligence claiming that the librarian depicted in the first chapter of defendant Klein's 1996 best-selling book, Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, was based on her. Plaintiff argues that Primary Colors was not a work of fiction because it is considered a roman a clef...

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