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The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.

The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.

He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective as its antihero.

The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.”

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.

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.

The popular science author, whose latest is “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” discusses her approach to the stranger corners of scientific inquiry.

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.