Hillel Italie, Associated Press

One of Hollywood's greatest bards, Eve Babitz, has died at age 78. With love and candor, Babitz chronicled the excess…

The winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction is Jason Mott's "Hell of a Book." It's a surreal…

The cinematographer who was fatally shot with a prop gun by Alec Baldwin on a movie set grew up on…

Paulsen received the Newbery Honor prize for "Hatchet," "The Winter Room" and "Dogsong," a story about a young native Alaskan…

Author Sally Rooney is holding off on allowing her current book to be translated into Hebrew, citing Israel's "system of…

Powers' "Bewilderment" is his first book since the Pulitzer winning "The Overstory." Groff's "Matrix" is her third consecutive work to…

A former jazz club owner and aspiring pianist, Wein launched the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 with a lineup for…

Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock 'n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as "Lawdy…

The publisher of a new, bestselling biography about Philip Roth has temporarily halted the book's shipping and promotion as its…

Trained as a librarian, Cleary penned more than 30 books, which sold millions of copies, saying she began writing because…