I went to high school in the 1970s in Montgomery County. The district was overwhelmingly White then, with a small number of ...

Phyllis Diller (July 17, 1917–August 20, 2012) is widely considered to be the first woman stand-up comic to perform as a solo act. To celebrate her 100th birthday in 2017, the Smithsonian worked with ...

Joan Didion’s therapy session notes published in new book Much of the writings in the book, released by Knopf, center on Didion's adult daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne.

Called the “dean of American post-modernists” and “the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,” Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self ...