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

The drama, which has had two runs in Britain, won London’s Olivier Award for best new play earlier this year.

Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.

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.

A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.

“I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife.

His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

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.