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With Johnny Depp's Help, Woody Guthrie Novel to Arrive in 2013, John Williams, NY Times "Arts Beat" blog

The author Douglas Brinkley and the actor Johnny Depp are teaming up to edit "House of Earth," a previously unpublished novel by the folk singer Woody Guthrie that will be released next spring. Mr. Brinkley said in a telephone interview that the book would appear from "a major New York publisher," but declined to specify which one before the deal was completed.

The manuscript, which Guthrie finished in 1947, follows a West Texas couple who, in their effort to build adobe homes as protection against treacherous weather, fight against banks and lumber companies.

Mr. Brinkley stumbled upon mention of the work while researching a piece about Bob Dylan for Rolling Stone. "As a Woody Guthrie fan, I didn't know about this novel," he said. "There are two great biographies" of Guthrie, by Ed Cray and Joe Klein, he added. "They're fantastic, readable books, but 'House of Earth' isn't talked about in them. I went on a hunt for it."

With help from the Woody Guthrie Foundation and the singer's daughter, Nora, he found the manuscript last fall. The published book will be about 250 pages, Mr. Brinkley said.

This Land Was His Land, Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Novel - an essay by Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp about the book (NY Times Sunday Book Review)

~ Becky in Tucson