Award-winning children’s book creator Tommy dePaola once said, “Reading is important because, if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”...
NEW YORK — Nancy Friday, a journalist and author whose bestselling “My Secret Garden” was a landmark compilation of women’s sexual fantasies, has died at age...
TORONTO –Award-winning Canadian author Richard B. Wright was remembered Wednesday as “an astonishing observer of life” who deftly balanced the demands of his accomplished literary career...
TORONTO—Award-winning author Miriam Toews is the recipient of the $50,000 Writers’ Trust Fellowship. Toews was named the 2016 honouree at the Writers’ Trust Gala fundraiser held...
NEW YORK—Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian—born Holocaust survivor whose classic “Night” became a landmark testament to the Nazis’ crimes and launched Wiesel’s long career as...
TORONTO — Novelist and naturalist Farley Mowat was fondly remembered Wednesday for captivating generations of schoolchildren with books such as “Owls in the Family” and “Never...