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The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.”

Two hundred years after his death, this Romantic poet is still worth reading.

At 96, Lore Segal is approaching death with the same startling powers of perception she brought to her fiction.

One of thousands of Jewish children transported to England at the dawn of World War II, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in novel-memoirs like “Other People’s Houses.”

Transported to safe haven in England as a Jewish child in 1938, she explored themes of displacement with penetrating wit in autobiographical fiction like “Other People’s Houses.”

The awards included a lifetime achievement honor given to Judy Blume.

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 American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.

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

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.