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Joseph O’Neill’s fiction incorporates his real-world interests in ways that can surprise even him. His latest novel, “Godwin,” is about an adrift hero searching for a soccer superstar.

Joseph O’Neill’s fiction incorporates his real-world interests in ways that can surprise even him. His latest novel, “Godwin,” is about an adrift hero searching for a soccer superstar.

The Museo Bodoniano in Parma, Italy, is a mecca for one of the world’s most enduring, and ubiquitous, typefaces. Meet Giambattista Bodoni, the “prince of typography.”

“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today.

“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” has been a runaway critical and commercial success. When you’ve been David all your life, everything changes “when you become Goliath.”

The great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker goes to a comic version of “Dracula” that is appearing Off Broadway.

It took Doris Kearns Goodwin a while to adjust to leaving the Concord, Mass., farmhouse she shared with her husband. But Boston has its compensations.

In the hands of skilled novelists, the stories of an heiress, a prime minister and a literary mystery woman are brought to life.

The award, one of the most prestigious among scholars of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”

The award, one of the most distinguished in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.”