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Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano.

Then: His favorite writer. Now: “So earnest, so didactic, so humorless.” His own new novel is “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother).”

Her knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife made her a noteworthy witness during the Warren Commission’s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.

In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field.

He identified as a “citizen diplomat” and preached mutual respect because, he explained, “everybody is a somebody.”

A new graphic biography of Caravaggio draws a provocative line from the old masters to the outsider artists of today.

The crossover genre blending the passion of romance with the high-stakes escapism of fantasy has dominated the literary landscape. Here’s where to start.

Despite a gorgeous score and some fine performances, the musical adaptation of the Madeleine L’Engle classic gets trapped in a time loop.

Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.