Tag: Biographies
Alex Kotlowitz’s `An American Summer’ wins Lukas Book Prize
NEW YORK (AP) - Alex Kotlowitz's “An American Summer,†an intimate chronicle of gun violence in Chicago, has won the J. Anthony Lukas Book...
T.S. Eliot letters to muse to be unveiled after 60 years
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to...
Hollywood ‘fixer’ Scotty Bowers dies; he wrote tell-all book
NEW YORK (AP) - Scotty Bowers, a self-described Hollywood "fixer" whose memoir offered sensational accounts of the sex lives of such celebrities as Katharine...
Deadly protests squeeze Haitians in shrinking economy
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Marcel Cineus scanned the crowd for hints of a potential customer as people bustled past his wooden stall filled with...
Deadly protests squeeze Haitians in shrinking economy
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Marcel Cineus scanned the crowd for hints of a potential customer as people bustled past his wooden stall filled with...
Prize winning historian Jean Edward Smith dead at 86
NEW YORK (AP) - Jean Edward Smith, a prize-winning historian known for his books on Franklin Roosevelt and Ulysses Grant, has died. He was...
Tommy Orange among winners of American Book Award
NEW YORK (AP) - Tommy Orange's novel "There There" and Jeffrey C. Stewart's biography of Harlem Renaissance thinker Alain Locke are among this year's...
Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - Presidential biographer Edmund Morris, best known for writing a book about the life of Ronald Reagan, has died. He was...
Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - Presidential biographer Edmund Morris, best known for writing a book about the life of Ronald Reagan in 1999, has died....
Noted Reagan biographer, Edmund Morris, dies at 78
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) - Noted presidential biographer Edmund Morris, best known for writing a book about the life of Ronald Reagan in 1999, has...
