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The Irish city, once home to the likes of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, is known for its bookstores, libraries and pubs, where writers found inspiration over pints of Guinness.

Her work often drew from her upbringing in California amid World War II, such as her intricate novel about the Nazi leader Hermann Goering.

In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.

His work provided the basis for the worldwide best seller “The Bible Code,” but he later rejected the book as unscientific.

Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the prism of female friendship.

Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.

Our critic talks to Edward P. Jones about how he imagined “The Known World,” recently voted the best work of fiction by an American writer in the 21st century.

The author of “Funny Story” churned out five consecutive No. 1 best-sellers without leaving her comfort zone. How did she pull it off?

He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.

As a journalist and later as a Yale professor, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging theatrical work.