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This is the Winter 1998-99 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: IN MY VIEW: "EASING INTO BIOGRAPHY"; 1999 SHARP BOOK HISTORY PRIZE COMPETITION; AUSTRIAN BOOK HISTORY ON THE GO; STUDYING GERMAN BOOK HISTORY; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; NEW JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENT; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; SEMINARS; 1998 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECTS ROUNDUP; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: IN MY VIEW: "EASING INTO BIOGRAPHY", by James L.W. West III (pp. 1-2); AUSTRIAN BOOK HISTORY ON THE GO, by Peter R. Frank and Murray G. Hall (p. 2); Lost Libraries; Drawing from Nature: Art and Illustration in the Natural History Science; Australian Media Traditions: Historical Perspectives; Children's Books History Society; Libraries and the Book Trade; "La Bibliofilia" (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 4); Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes; The Popular Print in England (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 4-5); Mellon Resident Research Fellowships; John Hill Burton Fellowship; Norman MacCaig Fellowship (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 5); Winter 1999 Book History Seminar Programme; Spring Term 1999 Sociology of Texts Seminar Series; Spring 1999 series of Edward Clark Seminars (SEMINARS) (p. 6); 1998 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECTS ROUNDUP, by Ian R. Willison, John Y. Cole (pp. 6-7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Sharon Hamilton, Barbara Hochman, David Hunter, Elizabeth Morrison, Philip Girard, Leon Jackson (pp. 7-11).