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Her books, many of which were best sellers, often described empty marriages, love affairs (with tasteful sex) and heroic clergymen.

The former president has said he’s been ‘working like hell’ on the book, which will focus on his term in office.

He announced that “The Once and Future Riot,” which considers sectarian violence in India, would be his last. But he’s compelled to return to Gaza.

An influential arts administrator and educator, he was a trusted confidant to countless writers, notably Philip Roth.

By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.

His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.

An Oxford professor and renowned critic, he was pugnacious, fearless and disdainful of the received wisdom of his intellectual milieu.

He won a National Book Award for “Spartina,” beating out novels by Amy Tan and E.L. Doctorow. A longtime professor, he lived for a time without electricity on an island.

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

The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to 365 of his own songs.