Hillel Italie, Associated Press

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…

Novelist and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston came up with the idea as a way to raise money for the…

Ferlinghetti helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement. He was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an…

The book is called "Beautiful Things" and will center on the younger Biden's well publicized struggles with substance abuse.

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder,"…

Michaela Goade won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children's picture story for the book "We Are Water Protectors." It…

She is calling her inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb."