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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.

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.

Acclaimed as one of America’s greatest living writers, she blended deeply personal material with themes of mythology and nature.

The actor and literacy advocate will host the ceremony after the National Book Foundation dropped its original host, Drew Barrymore.