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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?"

Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.

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

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.

The former “S.N.L.” writing partners have reunited for Rich’s “superficially wacky” Broadway show, “All In: Comedy About Love.”

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.

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.