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He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”

He entered publishing when he was 43, then published many of the most popular books of recent decades, including “The Da Vinci Code.”

Rushdie, who was grievously injured onstage last year, said the forthcoming book was a way “to answer violence with art.”

As her career took off, the best-selling Canadian novelist found the ideal office mate: her cat. They even had matching desk chairs.

In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II.

An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.

A critic recommends old and new books.