It sold millions of copies among Japanese youths, making Murakami a literary superstar in his native country.

According to Todd Pruzan, "For the better part of the 19th century, Mrs. Mortimer was something of a literary superstar to an impressionable audience, both in her native England and beyond."

While no literary superstar, Levy enjoyed some success during the 1880s.

Dawidziak has been working for several years with Paul J. Bauer on a biography of Jim Tully, an Irish-American vagabond who became a literary superstar in the 1920s and '30s.

The short, extravagant life of Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) - one of Russia's most celebrated poets and its first literary superstar - is recounted here in magnificent detail.

A whopping 225 hardbacks will hit the bookshop shelves, three times as many as are usually published in a week, including titles from such literary superstars as James Corden, Lee Evans and Alan Sugar.

Cuba Gooding, Jr., has just won an Oscar and David Foster Wallace, thanks to the recent publication of "Infinite Jest," is a literary superstar.

Into this economically charged mix stepped two new phenomenon, the literary superstar and the literary celebrity.

Indeed, many are perturbed that she is linked to a literary superstar like Mr. Rushdie by virtue of mutual circumstance.

SOMETHING strange happened after the Smoking Gun revealed this week that James Frey had apparently made up huge portions of his memoirs, which made him a literary superstar (thesmokinggun.com).