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<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Reviews have been mixed and the facts are in question, but the authorized biography of Pfc. Jessica Lynch will still claim a cherished position in the publishing industry: No. 1 on The New York Times' list of nonfiction best sellers.</p>

The real story within the "real" story of Jessica Lynch seems yet untold despite a made-for-TV movie and a book by former New York Times golden yarn-spinner Rick Bragg. Both the movie, "Saving Private Lynch," and the book, "I Am a Soldier, Too" have sparked discussions about the young Lynch's relative heroism and what really happened to the 507th Maintenance Company to which she belonged.

Jessica Lynch Too Ill to Tour She's postponing a TV appearance, other events. NEW YORK (Nov. 17) - Pfc. Jessica Lynch has the flu and had to postpone several promotional appearances for her book, "I Am a Soldier, Too," her publicist said Monday. "The only appearances she's making the next few days will be with her doctor and her physical therapist," said Paul Bogaards, executive director for Alfred A. Knopf, which released the book last Tuesday, Veteran's Day. After interviews last week with Katie Couric, David Letterman and others, the 20-year-old Lynch is back home with her parents in Palestine,...

<p>Jessica Lynch may have been the victim of an extremely bad car crash in Iraq, but she has had to endure a demolition derby of type-casting ever since. Patriotic heroine, propaganda tool, overnight millionairess, sexual-assault victim, media darling, anti-warrior, photographer's vamp -- it's all been projected on her. Some of it might even be deserved, but it doesn't matter. Whether she likes it or not, Jessica Lynch comprises enough cultural personae to keep Camille Paglia occupied for the next decade. And all because someone missed a turn on the road to Baghdad.</p>

NEW YORK - Television viewers preferred the real Jessica Lynch to the fictional one. An estimated 15.7 million people watched Diane Sawyer interview the former prisoner of war in a 90-minute ABC News special on Tuesday, Nielsen Media Research said Wednesday. That compares to the 14.9 million people who watched NBC's movie, "Saving Jessica Lynch," on Sunday.

Jessica Lynch just completed an interview on The Today Show with Katie Couric. Lynch was accompanied by Rick Bragg, author of her authorized story: "I am a Soldier Too." The bottom line is that very few if any details emerged from the interview. As Bragg (who came across as a decent, smart, down-to-earth, patriotic guy) said, despite endless hours of interviews with Lynch, she simply remembers nothing from the time her Humvee was hit until she woke up in the hospital hours later. She has no recollection of who fired on the Humvee, what it was hit with, how she...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite a media blitz, the biography of America's best-known soldier from the Iraq (news - web sites) war, Jessica Lynch, appeared unlikely on Tuesday to translate into big cash as the first day of sales fell short of expectations. After days of magazine covers, TV movies, tabloid tales and television interviews, first-day sales of her authorized biography, "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," fell well short of other high-profile books like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites)'s memoir, which had buyers lining up around the block. Not a copy had been...

Book: Lynch Struggled With Iraqi Doctors  NEW YORK - Former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch screamed and struggled with Iraqi doctors trying to anesthetize her after one of them said they were going to amputate her leg, according to newly released excerpts from her soon-to-be-released authorized biography. The surgery never took place, and Lynch later heard that it was planned so she could be taken more easily to Baghdad, "probably for a propaganda video," according to excerpts of "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" being published Monday in Time magazine. The book will be released Tuesday....

NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi doctors who treated former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch dismissed on Friday claims made in her biography that she was raped by her Iraqi captors. Although Lynch said she has no memory of the sexual assault, medical records cited in "I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" indicate that she was raped and sodomized by her Iraqi captors, according to U.S. media who said they had advance copies. The book -- due to be released Tuesday -- covers Lynch's experience between March 23 when her 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed in...

Jessica Lynch has angrily accused the Pentagon of using her for propaganda. The 20-year-old private, portrayed as a female Rambo after she was captured by Iraqis during a blazing gun battle, then freed by American troops, told ABC there was no reason for her rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed. "They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," Lynch said in an interview with Diane Sawyer that airs Tuesday, Veterans Day. "Yeah, it's wrong," Lynch said. "I don't know why they filmed it, or why they say the things" they said. That footage of U.S....

If you buy PFc Jessica Lynch's book when it comes out next month, you could help the children of other soldiers. The former prisoner of war established a foundation to assist children of soldiers, particularly ones whose mother or father were killed while serving. Lynch is doing this to honor the memory of her best friend PFc Lori Piestewa, who was killed when the 507th maintenance company was ambushed in March. Piestewa was the mother of two small children. Lynch's attorney, Stephen Goodwin, says the foundation will be funded with money from Lynch's forthcoming book and other revenue sources. Goodwin...

<p>NEW YORK  — The authorized biography of former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch (search) reportedly says she was raped by her Iraqi captors.</p> <p>"I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" is being released by Knopf publishing Tuesday, which is Veterans Day. Reporter Rick Bragg (search), who wrote the book, tells Lynch's story.</p>

BY PAUL D. COLFORD AND CORKY SIEMASZKO New York Daily News NEW YORK - (KRT) - Jessica Lynch was brutally raped by her Iraqi captors. That is the shocking revelation in "I Am a Soldier, Too," the much-anticipated authorized biography of the former POW. A copy of the book was obtained by The New York Daily News on Wednesday. Best selling author Rick Bragg tells Lynch's story for her, often using her own words. Thankfully, she has no memory of the rape. "Jessi lost three hours," Bragg wrote. "She lost them in the snapping bones, in the crash of the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jessica Lynch, the former prisoner of war whose capture and rescue from an Iraqi hospital made her a national hero, has agreed to a $1 million book deal with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. "Many folks have written, expressing their support for me and for the thousands of other soldiers who serve their country," Lynch said in a statement issued Tuesday by Knopf. "I feel I owe them all this story, which will be about more than a girl going off to war and fighting alongside her fellow soldiers. It will be a story about growing up...

Jessica Lynch Biography Hits Racks In November'I Am a Soldier, Too' To Be Written by Bragg By Linton WeeksWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, September 2, 2003; Page C01 "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story" will go on sale in November at bookstores, discount warehouses, truck stops, gift shops, grocery stores, pharmacies, PXs and just about everywhere else across America. The authorized biography will be written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg and published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House. Sonny Mehta, Knopf's president, will make the official announcement today. "Jessica Lynch has captured the hearts...