Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country’s most enduring figures, ...

Today should be declared a national holiday. A memoir has just been launched by the funniest writer in America, Pulitzer-Prize winner Dave Barry. The book is called Class Clown: The Memoirs of a ...

Lydia Millet has published more than a dozen novels and two collections of stories; her latest, “Atavists,” is a bit of both — a novel in stories, a deliciously digestible and of-the-moment ...

Shaina Feinberg’s friendship with Joan Darling, a director and actress, gave her confidence to be both a filmmaker and a ...

Pulitzer Prize watchers might have expected Percival Everett's James to take top honors, considering the Huckleberry Finn reimagining had already nabbed the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

After President Donald Trump took office this year, some of his administration’s earliest actions targeted the arts.

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

2 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view ...

The event’s speakers include Chico State President Steve Perez, Butte College President Virginia Guleff, Chico State Provost ...

Everett has also received the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for his reimagining of the 'Adventures of Huckleberry ...