Barbara Walters Wants You To Buy Her Book

By Marcus Gilmer in Arts & Entertainment on May 27, 2008 5:04PM

Barbara Walters, half of the most boring celebrity feud of all time, is currently on tour promoting her new autobiography, Audition: A Memoir, and will make a few stops in the Chicago area.

Walters appeared today at a luncheon at the Union League of Chicago, and will also be participating in a cocktails and dinner event courtesy of Winnetka's The Book Stall (call 847-446-8880 for more information). She'll cap her Windy City Tour off by appear tomorrow with another doubleheader: first, a lunchtime signing at the Michigan Ave. Borders, and then an evening reading and signing at Naperville's North Central College.

Babs has been making waves with the revelation of her tryst with the then-married former-U.S. Senator Ed Brooke, the first popularly elected African-American Senator. Walters succeeded in breaking new ground for female journalists on NBC's Today Show, ABC's 20/20, and being the first woman to co-anchor a national news telecast at The ABC Evening News.

Barbara Walters, 12 p.m., Free, Borders at 830 N. Michigan Ave. and 7 p.m., North Central College's Pfeiffer Hall, 310 E. Benton Ave., Naperville, IL, $5 with purchase of book from Anderson's Bookshop (123 W. Jefferson Ave.)

Image via Barbara Walters' MySpace page. No, really.