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John D. MacDonald was eerily prescient about the risks of human-driven climate disasters in the region.

A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.

Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.

His clever, melancholic mind produced some of the most enduring heroes in spy fiction. Here are his best books.

After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.

He walked away from his family’s hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.

In a new memoir, the actor who couldn’t shake his breakthrough role on “Full House” talks about honesty, sobriety and his grief over Bob Saget’s death.

The children in three illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.

Long a favorite to receive the award, Fosse has found acclaim for work that explores mortality and religion, and radiates serenity.

The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine.