Writing and Writers – Page 34

Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81

He wrote more than two dozen books, including richly detailed biographies of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Laurence Olivier and Jesus.

A celebration of community libraries and their expanding role, and a look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding.

The charge that she’s a transphobe doesn’t square with her actual views.

My hypochondria eventually passed, leaving me as mysteriously as it seized me, but my love of sports never did.

Will the Japanese novelist Mieko Kawakami’s stark explorations of class translate to American readers?