Oprah Winfrey's Life Charted by Celeb Biographer  12/15/06

US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will see her life detailed on paper when celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley pens her memoirs.

Kelley, whose past life studies have included Frank Sinatra and the family of US Presidents George Bush and George W Bush, admits she's "fascinated" by her latest subject.

She says, "There has been no other person in the 20th century whose convictions and values have impacted the American public in such a significant way."

But Winfrey may not feel quite so flattered as Kelley has a history of controversial books. She rose to fame with the 1978 publication of Jackie Oh!, which detailed former President John F Kennedy's womanizing and his first lady Jackie Kennedy's battle with depression, and her 1991 Nancy Reagan book was branded "encyclopedically vicious" by the New York Times.

A date has yet to be announced for the Winfrey publication.