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ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Harper Lee politely knocked on truck driver Robert Louis Burns' door in rural Alabama one ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sherman Alexie is defending his decision to include a poem by a white man writing under a Chinese pen name in the "Best American Poetr...

NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson's next stop on his literacy crusade is Baltimore. The best-selling author, who has donated millions of dollars to book...

NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of Brittany Maynard, the brain cancer patient who became a leading advocate for the right to die, is working on a memoir. T...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, has a book deal. McCaul's "Failures ...

NEW YORK (AP) — There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathan Martin, the former NFL tackle who abruptly left the Miami Dolphins and has since said he attempted suicide, is working on a m...

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Award winner James McBride is returning to nonfiction for his next project. The author of "The Good Lord Bird" has a dea...

NEW YORK (AP) — Prize-winning crime writer Steve Hamilton has a new publisher just days after leaving St. Martin's Press over what he cited as lack of...

NEW YORK (AP) — The death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe at the hands of an American bow hunter continues to generate outrage around the world, but bri...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE — A year ago, most Americans had never heard of the St. Louis suburb called Ferguson. But after a white police officer ...

SEATTLE (AP) — True-crime writer Ann Rule signed a contract to write a book about an unknown Seattle serial killer six months before he was identified...

NEW YORK (AP) — Few minds were as playful and as serious as E.L. Doctorow's. Conjurer of old-time gangsters and ragtime stars. Commentator on wars and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eighty years after the release of "Green Hills of Africa," the son and grandson of Ernest Hemingway are urging a fresh look at a work ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Critics dismissed it as a rough draft for "To Kill a Mockingbird" and readers despaired over an aging, racist Atticus Finch. But Harpe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harper Lee's unexpected new novel offers an unexpected and startling take on an American literary saint, Atticus Finch. "Go Set a Watc...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — At a militant training camp in Pakistan, a new recruit asks his instructor why his comrades are attacking churches and mosques...

NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie — already a poet, novelist and short story writer — moves into a new realm with his first pi...

NEW YORK (AP) — Six letters by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee to one of her close friends failed to sell at auction Friday. The archive had...

LONDON (AP) — The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into online retailer Amazon over its distribution of e-books, which have beco...