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When Paul Auster passed away in 2024, the literary world lost one of its most idiosyncratic voices — a novelist…

Oft-called the most notorious literary critic in America, Harold Bloom was born in 1930 to a family of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox…

Born in Saigon in 1988, poet and novelist Ocean Vuong‘s work is weighted with suffering: his family spent more than…

Before taking on the star-making turn of pill-popping medical maverick Dr. Gregory House on the hit Fox drama House, Hugh…

Over a nearly six-decade career in show business, Morgan Freeman has grown into one of the best-respected figures in modern…

“Let others boast of the books they have been given to write; I boast of those that I was given…

Award-winning author and longtime New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean is best known for her 1998 book The Orchid Thief,…

In his short life, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a graffiti poet, political painter, and pop icon whose cult status and cultural…

As the raconteuring half of magic duo Penn & Teller, Penn Jillette has dazzled and disoriented audiences since the mid-70s.…

American novelist John Irving went from obscure, academic writer to household name on the release of his breakthrough work The…