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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2011 file photo, Italian writer Umberto Eco appears at a press conference at the 25th Annual Book Fair in Jerusalem. Eco's “Numero Zero,” a best-seller in the novelist's native Italy, will come out in the U.S. this fall. On Monday, March 9, 2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a Nov. 3 release date for Eco's story of a ghostwriter in Milan caught up in an underworld of crime and conspiracy. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)