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He wasn’t just prolific, publishing 32 books. His output also showed an unusual range that included memoirs and forays into historical fiction and even poetry.

A voracious reader, the president liked poetry, Civil War history and Southern fiction. He also sent Erica Jong a fan letter.

He was trained as a mathematician, but he gained fame in France, and won major prizes, for his modern verse.

The celebrity chef’s second children’s book, “Billy and the Epic Escape,” faced accusations that it stereotyped First Nations people in Australia.

Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.

“I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”

The writer discusses her follow-up to her best-selling 2021 novel “The Plot.”

John D. MacDonald was eerily prescient about the risks of human-driven climate disasters in the region.

After years of this-and-that jobs, Hallett began to write a novel: “What do I have to lose?” Now a widely celebrated voice in crime fiction, she just launched her fifth book, “The Examiner.”

The fourth in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.