Arts Sep 13 George Wein, Newport Jazz Festival co-founder, dies at 95 A former jazz club owner and aspiring pianist, Wein launched the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 with a lineup for the heavens — Billie Holliday and Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Lester Young — and kept going for more than…
Arts May 08 Lloyd Price, singer and early rock influence, dies at 88 Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ’n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.
Arts Apr 22 Publisher pauses release of new Philip Roth biography The publisher of a new, bestselling biography about Philip Roth has temporarily halted the book's shipping and promotion as its author, Blake Bailey, faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.
Arts Mar 26 Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary dies at 104 Trained as a librarian, Cleary penned more than 30 books, which sold millions of copies, saying she began writing because children told her there were no stories about kids like them.
Arts Mar 19 Margaret Atwood, Celeste Ng among contributors to pandemic novel Novelist and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston came up with the idea as a way to raise money for the Authors Guild Foundation.
Arts Feb 23 Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101 Ferlinghetti helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement. He was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond.
Arts Feb 04 Hunter Biden’s memoir ‘Beautiful Things’ publishes in April The book is called "Beautiful Things" and will center on the younger Biden's well publicized struggles with substance abuse.
Arts Jan 28 Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96 Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper's wife in "Sounder," a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers' hearts in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,"…
Arts Jan 26 Michaela Goade becomes first Native American to win Caldecott Medal Michaela Goade won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for best children's picture story for the book "We Are Water Protectors." It was written by Carole Lindstrom and is a call for environmental protection.
Arts Jan 15 Poet Amanda Gorman to read at Biden’s inauguration She is calling her inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb.”…