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The best-selling British writer has an eye for bit players, including ones who nudge, nag, gripe and blurt inconvenient truths.

Women, sex and Jewish mothers were just some of the targets of his popular satirical writing in books, essays, screenplays and more.

Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds.

After nearly 40 years as a professor, he began a new career writing poems and translating classics. He won a National Book Award when he was 86.

The author of “Mother-Daughter Murder Night” started working on her debut novel during a time of tremendous stress.

He wanted to put a face on the source of cells that led to striking medical advances, and through him a best seller and a movie did just that, telling the tale of Henrietta Lacks.

Derna, which lost entire neighborhoods and thousands of residents in the deluge, has a history as a cultural and intellectual hub as well as a rebellious streak.

“Difficult Men,” Brett Martin’s book about the prestige TV boom, has been rereleased in a 10th-anniversary edition. In an interview, he reflects on how TV has changed since he wrote it.

The author of “Happiness Falls” explains how — and why — she chose a quote from “The Little Prince” to set the tone for her novel.

The actor and TV host’s decision to return her talk show to the air, bypassing striking writers, made her a magnet for criticism, online and off.