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“You are my voice in English,” Gabriel García Márquez told her. She insisted that her name appear on the covers of books she translated, including with that of Cervantes.

He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and explicitly candid memoirs.

Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.

Her fiction delivered searing, candid portraits of Irish society through the prism of female friendship.

In his lyrical writings, he examined physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

In essays and books, he explored physical landscapes and the terrain of his own life, up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.

He questioned the findings of the Warren Commission, called Edward Snowden a prized Russian asset and exposed the diamond industry’s economic impact.

Our critic talks to Edward P. Jones about how he imagined “The Known World,” recently voted the best work of fiction by an American writer in the 21st century.

He helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin. Now he’s written his own life story.

In his fiction and journalism, he sought to illustrate the story of the contemporary Middle East and his native Lebanon.