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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 [...]

On the morning of Sept. 29, 1954, Arnold Hano took the subway to Upper Manhattan and bought a bleacher ticket - it cost $2.10 - for the first game of [...]

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 [...]

Public sculpture is a deeply contentious area, as Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani may have recently discovered when he created a ruckus by proposing to install a statue of Frank Sinatra [...]

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 [...]

Donald Harington, who created a surreal rural mini-world in more than a dozen novels set in the fictional Ozark hamlet of Stay More, Ark., died Saturday in Springdale, Ark. He [...]

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 -- [...]

John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to place him in [...]

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 [...]

Charles Wright, who wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City between 1963 and 1973 that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent [...]

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 [...]

David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories and essays made him an heir to modern virtuosos like Thomas [...]

Gregory Mcdonald, an Edgar Award-winning crime writer whose acidly funny novels starring the subversive sleuth I. M. Fletcher, breezily known as Fletch, have sold millions of copies and inspired two [...]

Ralph M. Kovel, a nationally known writer on antiques who for more than half a century put prices on the stuff of life, from baseball cards to bottle caps to [...]

Jeannette Eyerly, one of the first writers for young adults to deal with themes like unwanted pregnancy, alcoholism and drugs, died on Aug. 18 at her home in Des Moines. [...]

Dave Freeman, co-author of ''100 Things to Do Before You Die,'' a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died on Aug. 17 after a [...]

Thomas M. Disch, an author, poet and critic who twisted the inherently twisted genre of science fiction in new, disturbing directions, including writing his last book in the voice of [...]

Matthew J. Bruccoli, whose biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and outpouring of scholarly essays and critical editions made him the dean of Fitzgerald studies in the United States, died at [...]

Jon Hassler, the author of a series of novels that affectionately mocked the foibles of small-town teachers, gossips, troublemakers and assorted other eccentrics, most from the fictional town of Staggerford, [...]

A memorial for the author Norman Mailer will be held at 4 p.m. April 9 at Carnegie Hall, Random House and the Mailer family have announced. Mr. Mailer died on [...]

Norman Mailer published more than 30 books in his career. These are among his most notable: THE NAKED AND THE DEAD (1948): It was called one of the greatest war [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT The writer Lillian Ross has spent more than 60 years at the New Yorker, and in that time she has been many things: an 18-year-old Talk of [...]

Byline: SARAH HAMPSON Vikram Chandra is happy to talk. He is seated in a Toronto hotel lobby, his arms resting on the sides of his chair, his feet planted apart, [...]

Byline: IAN BROWN Ian You said in the dedication to, I think it was Tepper Isn't Going Out, a novel about parking. . . . Calvin Right. Excuse me, I'm [...]

Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar- and Tony-winning writer of squeaky-clean fare for stage and screen who became world famous for his later career as a writer of steamy, best-selling novels, died [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER Odd as it may seem, a bestselling book can be a mixed blessing for a writer. On the one hand, you have the satisfaction of commercial and [...]

Byline: BILL RICHARDSON; Special to The Globe and Mail David Sedaris, the business plan, would not moisten the cavities of your average loans officer. It would read something like: "The [...]

Byline: SARAH HAMPSON 'Americans are a very contradictory people, and I'm quintessentially American," blurts Shmuley Boteach. He blinks his green eyes behind small glasses, serious and calm in his good [...]

Byline: MICHAEL POSNER Spy novelist Alan Furst can remember exactly when the light bulb went on. It was 1983. He was a freelance writer living, as economically as possible, with [...]

Byline: SARAH HAMPSON John Grisham locks his clear blue eyes on me across a table. "I'm on a soapbox," the 51-year-old author admits freely, easing back in his chair and [...]

Byline: SARAH HAMPSON Lewis Lapham is sitting in a Toronto hotel's penthouse suite, with a glorious view over the islands and Lake Ontario. It befits a man who has always [...]

Byline: BERT ARCHER; Special to The Globe and Mail Born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951, the son of a sports writer and a lifestyle editor. Moved to Britain in [...]

Byline: SIMON HOUPT NEW YORK -- Even on her honeymoon, Nell Freudenberger couldn't stop trying to connect with people. Last month in Turkey, Freudenberger and her new husband were crossing [...]

Byline: ALAN FREEMAN Dressed in a black Stetson, black western shirt, black tasseled leather vest and blue jeans, and chomping on a massive unlit cigar, the man who wants to [...]

Maureen Daly, a writer whose first novel, ''Seventeenth Summer,'' anticipated the young-adult genre by decades when it appeared in 1942 and has endured as a classic coming-of-age story, died on [...]

Byline: IAN BROWN Calvin Trillin hates to write about what the people are thinking. "I hate those kind of stories," he says, "because who knows what people think? You interview [...]