Oprah Winfrey has had the number-one-rated talk show for almost 20 years. The Oprah Winfrey Show reaches more than 30 million viewers weekly in the United States and is broadcast to more than 110 countries.

Since her start at a tiny Nashville radion station, she has become a media mogul, founding a film and television production company, an inspirational magazine, and a US$20 million public charity, and co-founding a cable network for women.

Abused as a child, she has even helped to pass a law that protects children from abuse.

In The World According to Oprah, Ken Lawrence captures this amazing woman in her own words, as she expresses the ideas and beliefs that made her who she is today.