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The poet and author, who rose from the harshest of childhoods to become a force on the stage, screen and printed page, has died aged 86.
"The Kite Runner" author Khaled Hosseini’s latest novel, "And the Mountains Echoed", tells of how we are united by loss, failure and missing out.
Just the mention of her name, JK Rowling, had the audience screaming and on its feet.
The first project for Johnny Depp’s publishing imprint, Infinitum Nihil, will be a book by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
Poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds, has died at the age of 85.
Poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds, has died at the age of 85.
How big is the market for a multimedia story — and can a phenomenon be conceived by a publisher?
Kay Ryan, an award-winning poet, mountain-bike rider and self-described ”modern hermit”, has been named the next United States poet laureate.
An award-winning children’s book based on the true story of two male penguins that raised a baby penguin has topped the list of works attracting complaints from parents, library…
JK Rowling has a request for those with inside information on her seventh and final Harry Potter book: please keep it to yourself. ”We’re a little under three months away, now,…
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public…
William Styron, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose explorations of the darkest corners of the human mind and experience were charged by his own near-suicidal demons, died…
Jaws author Peter Benchley, the man who made the ocean a scary place for millions of fans, was actually quite fond of sharks, an image that seems as jarring as Alfred Hitchcock,…
Harry Potter readers, here’s an extra special holiday gift: JK Rowling announced that she has completed the sixth Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The book…
George Plimpton, the author, actor and literary patron whose countless famous friends have included Ernest Hemingway, Robert Kennedy and Warren Beatty, has agreed to write his…
Leon Uris, whose best-selling novel Exodus offered the world a heroic tale of the founding of Israel and an image of Jews as muscular, sunburned avengers, has died at 78.
