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“I Heard You Paint Houses,” his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades and added an important perspective for Washington’s cognoscenti.

He tracked the rise of grunge as the editor of the Seattle music magazine The Rocket. He also wrote acclaimed books about two of the city’s most celebrated rock luminaries.

He popularized the term “institutional racism" and, with Stokely Carmichael, wrote a book in 1967 that was seen as a radical manifesto.

In the first volume of her memoir (which she hasn’t read), she explores her difficult childhood, her fraught marriage to Sonny Bono and how she found her voice.

MacNolia Cox speaks only one sentence in a picture book about her trip to the 1936 national spelling bee. Zaila Avant-garde, the 2021 champ, writes volumes.

How do you explain the democratic process to future voters? Start with these lively picture books and compelling histories.

When “I’m sorry for your loss” isn’t going to cut it, young readers might find solace, and solidarity, in story time.

In four new picture books, lions, tigers and house cats stand in for young children as they rein in wild emotions or finally let out a roar.

Sydney Smith, Allen Say and Linda Shute explore the many facets of our recollections.