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His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war ''unwinnable.'' Lewis Sorley, a military historian [...]

Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish. John Gierach, a fly fisherman who was as [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Correction: A previous version of this obituary incorrectly said that Mr. Skármeta found refuge in Bolivia as well as Argentina before settling in West Germany during his [...]

MARY MASON Mary peacefully 'hopped off her perch' and 'handed in her chips,' as she would say and as she had recently been wishing, on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at [...]

His book, ''American Ramble,'' lyrically recounted a 330-mile trek from Washington, D.C., to New York City while he was in remission from cancer. Neil King Jr., a journalist whose book, [...]

Byline: JUDY STOFFMAN Curious, courageous, determined, Maria Tippett traced the development of Canada's visual culture in a dozen books, among them wartsand-all biographies of some of the country's most venerated [...]

Prodded by Oliver Sacks, he wrote a humane, award-winning book about the condition. A music maven, he also wrote liner notes for the Grateful Dead and his friend David Crosby. [...]

M2 PRESSWIRE-September 5, 2024-: Divine Interventions in Walter G. Hanna's Life Journey (C)1994-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:04092024 Walter G. Hanna's life has been marked by numerous events he believes are divine [...]

She was already a prominent hostess in the nation's capital when her uninhibited, best-selling 1973 memoir, ''Laughing All the Way,'' made her a star. Barbara Howar, a best-selling author, television [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Francine Pascal, who became a fixture in the reading lives of a generation of adolescent girls as the creator of the âSweet Valley Highâ books, a series [...]

Byline: [CREDIT]ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- Francine Pascal, a onetime soap opera writer whose Sweet Valley High novels and the ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other [...]

The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing. Francine Pascal, a former soap-opera scriptwriter from Queens who [...]

Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married. Edna O'Brien, the prolific Irish author whose evocative [...]

He wrote of how 50 Black sailors were court-martialed for refusing to keep loading munitions onto cargo ships in 1944 after explosions had killed hundreds. They were exonerated this month. […]

His best seller about Marines in Iraq, members of a 'disposable generation,' was made into an HBO mini-series. He focused on subjects outside mainstream media coverage. Evan Wright, an award-winning […]

Byline: Emily Langer Evan Wright, a modern-day gonzo journalist who embedded with an elite U.S. Marine battalion in Iraq for prizewinning articles that were published in Rolling Stone and grew [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy One day in November 1947, a young apprentice at a bakery in Scotland carried some ingredients from his downstairs workstation to the main kitchen. Just at that [...]

She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary. Judy Belushi Pisano, who [...]

An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands ''to take over their unions and change them.'' Jane F. McAlevey, [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Ismail Kadare, an Albanian novelist and poet who crafted a richly layered literature of resistance, drawing global attention to his isolated Balkan nation while cloaking critiques of [...]

Reporting from more than 80 countries, he combined close observation with sharp conclusions that pointed the finger at misdeeds or abuse of power. He was an author as well. T.D. [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Long before he helped design a life-size blue whale for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Richard Ellis was enchanted with the ocean and [...]

She was hailed for her books and admired for promoting women's rights. But her support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict angered many. Yael Dayan, a celebrated Israeli [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy Ángeles Flórez Peón, who left her job as a young seamstress to join leftist guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War and - after her capture and decades [...]

With her collaborator, Elaine Mazlish, she wrote ''How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk'' and other books that have endured as parenting bibles. Adele [...]

A divorced single mother, she started out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls and ended up with a tale of female autonomy that became a best-selling novel. Shirley Conran, [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Lesley Hazleton, a psychologist turned author who cast her perceptive gaze on politics, cars, religion and faith, writing about Israeli society, the transgressive thrills of breaking the [...]

After writing a best seller about the sinking of the Andrea Doria, he was a co-author with Richard M. Nixon, Patty Hearst, William S. Paley and others. Alvin Moscow, who [...]

She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography. Anne Edwards, a prodigious and peripatetic author [...]

Byline: Bob Drogin On March 4, 1960, a dapper French count turned American journalist named Sanche de Gramont was working the night rewrite desk at the New York Herald Tribune. [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith John Nichols, who launched his literary career in his mid-20s with a pair of tragicomic novels but became best known for evoking New Mexico's small towns and [...]

Byline: Brian Murphy A shepherd and shoemaker argue about who has greater money woes. A misogynist peasant grouses about women. A village priest becomes a double agent, pretending to care [...]

Byline: William Branigin As a child during World War II, Priit Vesilind escaped Nazi-occupied Estonia with his family ahead of an advancing Soviet army bent on recapturing their homeland and [...]

Byline: Emily Langer Echo Brown, who channeled the agonies of poverty and racism into autobiographical art, writing and performing in an acclaimed one-woman show and penning two young-adult novels that [...]

Writing in a conversational and colloquial style, he offered practical advice on how to cut down on mistakes, the most difficult part of the game to master. Jeremy Silman, an [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Gita Mehta, whose incisive novels and nonfiction books subverted Western stereotypes while exploring the history, culture and contradictions of modern India, died Sept. 16 at her home [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald James Reston Jr., who brought a novelist's sensibility to prodigiously researched and well-received books that covered a vast range of current events and history - the [...]

Byline: Emily Langer A young woman is drinking tea with her mother and father one spring evening when they hear a convoy of trucks roll past their window in Amsterdam. [...]

After fleeing the island in 1961, he became one of the leading voices of opposition against the country's Communist dictatorship. Carlos Alberto Montaner, a writer who escaped Cuba shortly after [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith Milan Kundera, a Czech-born writer who drew attention to the cultural and political oppression of Central Europe under Communist rule, penning darkly comic novels that mixed philosophical [...]

The 37-year-old poet and novelist became the 13th person to be killed in the missile strike on a restaurant in eastern Ukraine on June 27. KYIV, Ukraine -- Victoria Amelina, [...]