Kate Winslet will publish a book, 'The Golden Hat'

Kate Winslet will publish a book, ‘The Golden Hat’

March 24, 2011 1:27 PM PT

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Actress Kate Winslet is accustomed to being around golden statues -- she’s been to the Oscars six times as a nominee, winning once. But this fall, she’s focusing on a golden hat. That’s the title of a book she’ll be publishing with Simon and Schuster in November.

‘The Golden Hat’ is designed to raise awareness of autism. The concept book, based on a poem written by the autistic son of a friend, is about a magic golden hat that helps an autistic child communicate. In Winslet’s book, there are photographs of many celebrities all wearing the golden hat.

Among those featured in ‘The Golden Hat’ are Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Peter Sarsgaard, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Laura Dern, Ben Stiller, Christina Aguilera, Anna Wintour, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Michael Kors and Ricky Gervais. There are a few celebrities who will be pictured in
‘The Gold Hat’ -- including Meryl Streep and Javier Bardem -- who have golden Oscar stauettes of their own.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.