The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White--which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):
"Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White."
◼ OBAMA’S LIT AGENCY USED 'BORN IN KENYA' BIO UNTIL 2007 - Ben Shapiro/Breitbart
Archive.org shows that the Dystel website used the following biography for Obama as of April 3, 2007:
BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller.Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007.
By April 21, 2007, the Obama bio had been changed to state that Obama was born in Hawaii...
◼ LITERARY AGENT RESPONDS TO ‘BORN IN KENYA’ OBAMA BIO: ‘NOTHING MORE THAN A FACT CHECKING ERROR’ - The Blaze
◼ A 'FACT CHECKING ERROR'? DYSTEL & GODERICH ASK WRITERS TO SUBMIT THEIR OWN BIOS - Steve Boman/breitbart
◼ OBAMA 'KENYA' LIT BOOKLET RAISES QUESTION MSM WILL REFUSE TO ASK - John Nolte/Breitbart
◼ Surprise! Barack Obama was a 'birther' - Doug Ross
◼ "What do you think? I've resisted all the birther stuff for the last four years." - Althouse
◼ Was Obama Himself the First Birther? - Ed Driscoll/PJM
◼ Oh, Dear: 1991 Promotional Material Circulated By Obama's Literary Agency States, In His Bio, That Obama Was "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" - Ace Of Spades (Language warning/comments)
◼ Is Obama a Pathological Liar? - Roger L Simon/PJM
