Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona’s law expanding the immigration enforcement powers of police, defended it in a Senate hearing under sharp questioning from Democrats on Tuesday.

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Arizona Immigration Bill Heads for Supreme Court

Like many people, the author tends to write a story in her head about the future of any relationship before it has even begun.

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Modern Love: Looking for Signs That It’s Meant to Be – Modern Love

After six decades of marriage and his wife’s decline, the author of a poignant essay killed himself and her, too.

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Love That Endured Alzheimer’s Ends in 2 Deaths

Details are leaking out from Walter Isaacson’s highly anticipated biography of Steve Jobs, due out Oct. 24. According to the author of the first authorized telling of Jobs’s life, it appears that the private executive wanted his story told for intensely personal reasons. A Reuters report Friday revealed that Isaacson last spoke to Jobs a few weeks before his death, when the Apple co-founder was too weak to climb the stairs. Read full article > >

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Steve Jobs bio: Jobs told author, ‘I wanted my kids to know me’

Mark Gail/The Washington PostMaya Soetoro-Ng, right, poses with Nia Alsop, 7, at the author’s visit to the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library to promote her new children’s book, “Ladder to the Moon.”

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Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama’s sister, visits D.C. library with new children’s book about their mother

The publisher of a new novel created by J.J. Abrams, the “Star Trek” director and “Lost” co-creator, offered few details on the project except to say that it will be written by Doug Dorst, the author of “Alive in Necropolis.”

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ArtsBeat: J. J. Abrams Collaborating on Novel for Little, Brown

Nicholas Delbanco, the author of “Lastingness: The Art of Old Age,” responds to the review of his book.

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Letters: Read the Book Instead

Colorado police arrest the author of a guidebook that gives advice to paedophiles, and charged him with violating obscenity laws in Florida.

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Paedophile book author arrested

Phillip Ray Greaves II, the author of a guide for pedophiles that caused an outrage when it was available for sale on Amazon’s Kindle store, was arrested on Monday on obscenity charges. Greaves was booked at his home in Colorado on a Florida arrest…

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Author of Pedophilia Book Arrested

Joseph Stein, the author of the play Fiddler on the Roof, died Sunday in New York at the age of 98. He died after fracturing his skull in a fall. Born in the Bronx, Stein worked as a social worker for several years before he met a comedian by chance…

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Tony Winner Joseph Stein Dies at 98