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Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima stressed that his works are meant for Japanese readers and expressed surprise that his novels are also popular among Westerners. Mishima, who was born in Tokyo, Japan, on Jan. 14, 1925, considers himself poor at languages despite his knowledge of German and English. Mishima committed suicide on Nov. 25, 1970, without realizing his dream of winning a Nobel Prize.

Manhattan, New York Justice Edwin Torres writes wise-guy novels that are exciting and interesting enough to be made into movies. A film buff himself, Torres was inspired to write after spending a night watching criminal movies.

In 2006, I was researching a biography of Random House cofounder Bennett Cerf; Toni Morrison had begun working there when he was still alive. During two conversations that year, she [...]

'Just as you have the right to write, people who claim a culture have the right to call you out when you create stereotypical characters who supposedly share that culture.' [...]

The journalist Janet Malcolm defines a biography as a medium through which the secrets of the dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. [...]

Jonathan Franzen's novel 'The Corrections' that sold two million copies in the United States is discussed. Two days after his novel 'The Corrections' was reviewed in the Sunday edition of The New York Times, just after the aircraft hit the World Trade Center Towers.

Byline: JENNIFER SCHUESSLER Fifteen stories, most written in the 1950s when Leonard was a copywriter at a Detroit advertising agency, will be published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in Britain and [...]

Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel Garca Marquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tells us that the books [...]

Producer Stanley Jaffe on how the novelist, who died May 22, finally embraced the film of Goodbye, Columbus Of all the Philip Roth novels Hollywood has adapted over the years--and [...]

Novelist Philip Kerrs death on March 23 from cancer at the young age of 62 came as a blow to the author's devoted fans across the world. As one of [...]

'At the stroke of noon, Mickey announced that it was time to make afield trip to secure a bottle of Seagram's 7.' I was a 24-year-old graduate student at Bowling [...]

Sitting over a cappuccino in Caffe Reggio in New York's Greenwich Village, listening to the novelist Amor Towles speak about the Russian Revolution, it's not difficult to imagine that this [...]

Byline: Roger Kaplan World War II posed no moral or existential problems for Albert Camus. As it began, he was 26 years old and had already made his mark as [...]

Byline: Edwin M. Yoder Jr. Since mine is hardly a household name, I can count on a few fingers the occasions when I've been interviewed. But one encounter remains as [...]

A BEAUTIFUL jazz riff, one that had played irresistibly and profoundly for more than six decades, went silent on the morning of Tuesday, August 20. The thing that is all [...]

Byline: JOHN WILLIAMS Praise for Mr. Leonard in The Times culminated in Janet Maslin declaring him a 'national treasure.' To view this article at nytimes.com, click here: [...]

On July 24th the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen would appear on a new £10 note. Its reasoning was daft: the bank felt its notes would not 'command [...]

Byline: William H. Pritchard The death of Evan S. Connell last month prompts reflection on an American original who, over a lifetime of steady work--many volumes of novels, stories, biography, [...]

The Gore They Loved Not long before his death, last year, Gore Vidal agreed to talk about the most important women in his life. Drawing on their conversations, JUDY BALABAN [...]