Best-selling authors appear at Webb event
2006-09-25
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
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rss feedAbout 1,000 supporters of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Jim Webb filled the Paramount Theater last night to hear readings by Webb and best-selling authors John Grisham and Stephen King.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, who joined the three authors on stage as master of ceremonies, said afterward, "I think Jim is picking up an awful lot of momentum right now."
Webb is challenging Republican U.S. Sen. George Allen in the Nov. 7 election. Susan Payne, who helped Grisham organize the event, said Webb's campaign raised more than $125,000 from the sold-out crowd that listened as Grisham and King read from soon-to-be-published novels and Webb read a passage about his father from his nonfiction book, "Born Fighting."
Webb's chapter about his Marine veteran father, James H. Webb Sr., began by describing hunting and fishing trips the senior Webb took him on as a boy, and talked about how family values were imparted from father to son.
"I do have to say it's a little iffy and a little bit risky scheduling an event and making the main theme about books, because I don't know if you've noticed but one of Senator Allen's main points of attack on Jim Webb is that he writes books," Kaine said.
Allen often says his campaign is "about facts, not fiction." Webb has written six novels and several screenplays.
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