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David McCullough thanks several main contributors the the library's success, including Tim Boland, Dan Waters and Beth Kramer.

Dinesh D'Souza , who recently pled guilty to a campaign finance violation , has been after Google for three weeks over allegations the company is muffing the search results for his new movie America .

David Mitchell, David Nicholls and past winner Howard Jacobson are in the running for this year's Man Booker Prize, as its new global embrace gives fewer than half the places on the longlist to Brits.

Popularly known as Harry Potter , Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on the July 23, 1989.

In recent months, some writers have yet again begun to lament the demise of the Great English-Language Novel.

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will headline next year's Desert Town Hall speakers series in Indian Wells, it was announced Tuesday.

Should he ever seek a career change, Michael Douglas could well be the next Barbara Walters or at the very least, a host on The View.

Robert Downey Jr. as Hank Palmer and Robert Duvall as Joseph Palmer in 'The Judge,' which will premiere at TIFF.

If Rand Paul is taking this summer's most prominent turn in the Republican spotlight, then the same must be said for his Senate colleague Elizabeth Warren among the new generation of national Democratic players.

Oscar-nominated Quebec director Philippe Falardeau will celebrate the world premiere of his new movie "The Good Lie" at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.

Today, we have a conversation with an anatomist behind a new PBS series that puts the lens on mammals who reproduce under extreme circumstances, like dolphins.

UK bookstore chain Waterstones is under fire for a new location called Southwold Books that the managing director of the company calls a "quintessentially local" bookstore but that some Southwold residents are complaining will hurt actual local businesses.

Independent bookstores like Doylestown are hoping the months-long dispute between Amazon and Hachette, which publishes authors like Rowling and television personality Stephen Colbert, will provide them with an opportunity to grab more readers.

Amazon entered the marketplace last week, with many describing their Kindle Unlimited service as "the Netflix of books".

Adding to the discussion about whether children need to work harder to achieve the standards set by the Common Core curriculum is a renewal of the controversy over innate ability vs. practice.

With six books and countless appearances to her name, Doris Kearns Goodwin is usually not at a loss for words.

Dueling movie producers. Super agents joining the fray. A drunken driving arrest.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission , Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York attorney general are investigating the industry.

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY ISN'T NEW. But this spring it became trendy, especially after Pope Francis dropped the tweet heard 'round the world in April: "Inequality is the root of social evil."

Author Gillian Flynn is no stranger to the film and entertainment world. The writer of New York Film Festival opening-night film Gone Girl worked as a film journalist at Entertainment Weekly for 10 years, even as she wrote her debut novel, Sharp Objects , which came out in 2006.