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Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first…

To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as "Beloved" and "The…

The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration made her an…

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…