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Raised in North Dakota and rural Illinois, he was a literary star in New York City in the 1970s. But he left the limelight to raise a family on a [...]

Her 1925 book, ''Lesbian Love,'' is one of the earliest examples of American lesbian literature. She also ran Eve's Hangout, a literary haunt in Manhattan. This article is part of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Her mother was Loretta Young. Her father was Clark Gable. Yet Judy Lewis spent her first 19 months in hideaways and orphanages, and the rest of her early [...]

Mark Twain's autobiography -- Volume 1 -- released in mid-November, is an enormous hit, apparently much to the surprise of its publisher, the University of California Press. Bookstores across the [...]

Sid Fleischman, a Newbery Award-winning author who never set out to write for children but flung himself into the field on a dare, died at his home in Santa Monica, [...]

Sid Fleischman, a Newbery Award-winning author who never set out to write for children but flung himself into the field on a dare, died at his home in Santa Monica, [...]

Jane Sherman, a writer who not only chronicled the excitement of early-20th-century American dance but also lived through it as a performer, died on Tuesday at the Lillian Booth Actors' [...]

Barry Hannah, a writer who found wide acclaim with wild, darkly comic short stories and novels set in a phantasmagoric South moving at warp speed, died on Monday at his [...]

J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success [...]

Louis Auchincloss, a Wall Street lawyer from a prominent old New York family who became a durable and prolific chronicler of Manhattan's old-money elite, died on Tuesday night in Manhattan. [...]

Erich Segal, a Yale classics professor turned popular writer whose first novel, ''Love Story,'' became a staggering commercial success if not quite a critical one when it appeared in 1970, [...]

William J. Lederer, a writer and career naval officer who, with Eugene Burdick, wrote ''The Ugly American,'' a novel that was among the first books to deal with American involvement [...]

C. D. B. Bryan, a novelist and journalist whose 1976 book, ''Friendly Fire,'' about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam, the consequent anguish of his family and their [...]

Irving Kristol was born into a fanatical century and thrust himself into every ideologically charged battle of his age. In the 1930s, as a young socialist, he fought the Stalinists. […]

If you had to choose a writer to report from the afterlife, could you do better than John Updike? Death needs no exaggeration, after all. I can imagine Updike -- […]

Endowed with an art student's pictorial imagination, a journalist's sociological eye and a poet's gift for metaphor, John Updike -- who died on Tuesday at 76 -- was arguably this […]

The area around Bathgate Avenue and 174th Street is an industrial park, a contradictory term for a place that has more concrete-covered factory floors than grassy fields. Yet the term […]

Michael Crichton, who died on Tuesday at the age of 66, was like a character in a Michael Crichton novel. He was unusually tall (6 feet 7 inches), strikingly handsome […]

In the past couple of days, I've wondered whether David Foster Wallace ever imagined writing his own obituary. It would not surprise me if he had. He was a sublime […]

'The life of a man happily married cannot fail to be influenced by the character and conduct of his wife,' Julian Hawthorne wrote of his father, Nathaniel, in 1884. 'Nathaniel […]

Andre Norton, a prolific and popular science-fiction and fantasy writer whose central theme was the rite of passage to self-realization undertaken by misfits or displaced outsiders, died yesterday at her […]