Joan Schenkar, author of the new biography of writer Patricia Highsmith, sits down with Speakeasy's Steve Kurutz to discuss her book, "The Talented Miss Highsmith." ...

The paperback edition arrives in time for the "Flowers in the Attic" writer's 100th birthday Thomas Van Cleave; Courtesy of Simon & Schuster The name V.C. Andrews is cemented in the minds of readers ...

As the person to have last interviewed Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño before his death from liver failure in 2003, it’s fitting that Mónica Maristain should write his biography. In “Bolaño: A Biography ...

She was surely the oddest Catholic author who ever lived. She went about London with her face powdered dead white, in vivid contrast to her natural carrot-colored hair, chopped off in front just above ...