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A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.

Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry.

The actor and environmentalist considered hiring a ghostwriter for help with his memoir, then realized as he was writing things down, “This is too much fun.”

Eliza Clark’s debut novel was a hit on TikTok. With her next book, “Penance,” she aims for literary longevity over viral success.

Like many Indian American fiction writers working in the shadow of Jhumpa Lahiri, I had to learn that my stories could be different — in part because America was different, too.

In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition.

Our critic Jennifer Szalai discusses Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur along with her recent profile of Klein, the Canadian writer and activist.

She saw her family members marched off to their deaths while she went to a forced-labor camp. It took her almost 60 years to begin telling her story.

He helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin. Now he’s written his own life story.