The final novel in Hilary Mantel’s great trilogy has been adapted for TV. Her editor joins us this week to discuss working ...

Now, nearly two centuries later, a second such book has emerged.

In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

Allen Thomas of Jacksonville has found a new calling after retirement — as an author. He's published two books since September.

Mr. Frederic Durbin and his analog writing students tell PEOPLE about typewriting letters to Tom Hank — and his replies.

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

A book bound in the skin of one of the UK's most notorious murderers is to go on display after being found in a museum's ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Edward Thomas James, 63, was executed by lethal injection on Thursday for the brutal 1993 murders of 58-year-old Elizabeth "Betty" Dick and her 8-year-old granddaughter, Toni Neuner, who was raped.