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When the writer built a dream home for his family, he forgot to include one important thing: a place to write. So he found an unconventional solution.

A successful New York apparel executive, he switched gears in midlife and became a novelist, writing numerous best sellers, including five with James Patterson.

Her new novella, “Rosarita,” takes place in Mexico, a country she finds so like her native India that, she says, “I feel utterly at home there.”

The author discusses “Tom Lake,” bookstore secrets and the play “Our Town.”

She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.

The longest-lived president has also written more best-selling books than any modern president — and had the fewest written about him.

He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.

A prolific journalist and author, he ignited an uproar with a less-than-flattering portrait of Charles and Diana’s marriage. “The most reviled man in Britain,” one newspaper called him.

This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?)

She gave voice to an overlooked French-speaking population in Canada, adapting an archaic language that had survived through oral tradition.