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She wrote whimsical tales about the little things in a child’s life. “A House Is a House for Me” won a National Book Award.

She was the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians. She went on to write detective novels with a queer woman in the lead.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

Poets have a way of incorporating other poets into their work. Our columnist approves.

His children’s book, “Just Because,” follows a best-selling memoir, “Greenlights,” which also drew from the actor’s musings and life lessons.

Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.

A posthumous anthology of photo essays by the curator and art historian reveals the “troubling reality” of prejudice and the power of images to “undermine the very concept of difference.”

He wrote extensively about the New York art scene in the 1960s and ’70s, then shifted to become a prominent street photographer.

The self-help phenom’s new book is all about letting others do as they may. Can she follow her own advice?

Her “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,” a guide to shedding toxic relationships, has sold more than seven million copies.