With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

Jackie Robinson is and always will be a legendary name in MLB history — and all of sports, for that matter. Robinson broke ...

Based on her memoir, “Becoming Eve” explores Stein’s journey from her Hasidic Williamsburg upbringing to becoming a prominent writer and activist.

The literary world has been marking the centenary of Mary Flannery O’Connor, who was born in Savannah, Ga., on March 25, 1925 ...

Some people alleged U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth oversaw the removal of Powell's biography from the cemetery's ...

Alina Habba, who was sworn in last Friday, also is pulling the plug on the government's bribery case against Cognizant's ...

It is not so much that they broke the mould when they made Mick O’Dwyer; it’s that he broke the mould himself, again and ...

A 1929 graduate of Converse College, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker became an author on the New York Times Best Seller list. She's remembered in a new book.

Mikey Madison is the youngest Best Actress Oscar winner in more than a decade, as well (less consequentially) as the youngest ...

Jacques Offenbach was born on June 20, 1819, in Cologne. He was the second son and seventh of ten children of Isaac Yehuda ...

There, on what looked like a recording studio set, Bob Dylan demonstrated where all that promising musicianship ended up.