I believe the literary agent confused the father with the son. Miriam Goderich, the agent has said that it was a fact checking error on her part.
A year before the bio, Obama had been elected President of Volume at the Harvard Law Review and the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune and other papers ran biographical articles about Obama being the first black to hold that position. Every one of those articles named Hawaii as Obama’s birthplace.
It was “birthers” who under a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered an Immigration and Naturalization Service memo from INS Agent William Wood who interviewed the father, Barack Senior about his request for a visa extension on August. 31, 1961, when Barack II was three weeks old. The memo documents Barack Senior listing Honolulu, Hawaii as his son’s birthplace.
http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/07/INS-6.jpg
Idiotic reply—you are one for two. You believe that Obama did not provide this info, and that not once in sixteen years did he review his own bio? Preposterous.