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After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

The awards included a lifetime achievement honor given to Judy Blume.

In her memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name,” the author reflects on her life and embarking on a gender transition in her late 60s.

He insisted that there were no morals to be found in the murder of six million Jews, nor was language itself capable of fully describing it.

Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s.

The father of Jeffrey Dahmer, he wrote a memoir that one reviewer said sought to “peer not just into the soul of his son but into his own.”

A wildly prolific son of Texas, McMurtry was a tangle of contradictions. Here’s where to start.

A feminist provocateur, she went on to write about the gay rights movement and transformative figures like the first two female Supreme Court justices.

Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved their fame, though James Baldwin was an admirer.

The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.