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

The Kissing Booth actor and her director husband tied the knot at a medieval fortress-turned-villa on the Balearic island surrounded by friends and family.

They (Jacob Elordi) could never make her hate those movies.

The wine seemed to be flowing.

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.

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.

A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.

"Aren’t there more important things we should be working on right now instead of, you know, that I might be dressing like a slob?"