Writing and Writers – Page 4

Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101

As the producer of “All in the Family” and many other shows, Mr. Lear showed that it was possible to be topical, funny and immensely popular.

After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.

A wildly prolific son of Texas, McMurtry was a tangle of contradictions. Here’s where to start.

The poets’ fellowship, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of the genre’s most important accolades.

Local newspapers are failing. That’s a threat to democracy.