Stephen King
Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press May. 21, 2021 07:00 AM EDT
Hartford Courant. May 18, 2021. Editorial: The angry, disruptive display at UHart’s commencement over switching to NCAA Division III was...

Author John Grisham attends the opening night of "A Time To Kill" on Broadway in New York on Oct. 20, 2013, left, and author Margaret Atwood attends the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York on Nov. 11, 2019. Atwood and Grisham are among several authors participating in a novel about the pandemic. The Authors Guild Foundation announced Thursday that it had reached a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media to publish “Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering." (AP Photo)
Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel

By Hillel Italie Mar. 18, 2021 02:45 PM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, author Stephen King poses for the cameras, during a promotional tour in Paris. Readers may know him best for “Carrie,” “The Shining” and other bestsellers commonly identified as “horror,” but King has long had an affinity for other kinds of narratives, from science fiction and prison drama to the Boston Red Sox. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Quotes from Stephen King interview with The Associated Press

By Hillel Italie Feb. 25, 2021 09:32 AM EST

This cover image released by Hard Case Crime shows "Later" a novel by Stephen King. Readers may know him best for “Carrie,” “The Shining” and other bestsellers commonly identified as “horror,” but King has long had an affinity for other kinds of narratives, from science fiction and prison drama to the Boston Red Sox. (Hard Case Crime via AP)
Stephen King talks about crime, creativity and new novel

By Hillel Italie Feb. 25, 2021 09:29 AM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 22, 2018, file photo, PEN literary service award recipient Stephen King attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Author King’s foundation covered the $6,500 cost of publishing a 290-page manuscript by students in Farwell Elementary School’s Author Studies Program. “Fletcher McKenzie and the Passage to Whole” is a story about a Maine boy by Gary Savage. But it was reworked to include students’ experiences during the coronavirus. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Stephen King helps kids publish pandemic-inspired book

Feb. 07, 2021 01:33 PM EST

FILE - This Sept. 13, 2011, file photo shows British author John Le Carre at the UK film premiere of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," in London. John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89, Le Carre’s literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 that he died in Cornwall, southwest England on Saturday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)
John le Carre, who probed murky world of spies, dies at 89

By Jill Lawless Dec. 13, 2020 05:11 PM EST

In this March 2, 2020, photo provided by Naomi Worcester, a crew of workers unload gear as they arrive on Kure Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, one of the most remote places on Earth. Cut off from the rest of the planet since February, four environmental field workers are back, re-emerging into a changed society by the coronavirus outbreak. (Naomi Worcester/Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)
Isolated for months, island crew sees pandemic for 1st time

By Caleb Jones Nov. 19, 2020 11:03 AM EST

A fly lands on the head of Vice President Mike Pence during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (Justin Sullivan/Pool via AP)
Fly on Pence's head generates buzz in VP debate

By Will Weissert Oct. 07, 2020 11:36 PM EDT

This combination photo shows the cover of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Nickel Boys," left, and a portrait of author Colson Whitehead. Whitehead became the first fiction writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for back to back novels. “The Nickel Boys,” his followup to “Underground Railroad,” won the Pulitzer in April and comes out in paperback this week. He also managed to finish a crime novel, with the working title “Harlem Shuffle,” that he began more than a year ago. (Doubleday, left, and Madeline Whitehead/Doubleday via AP)
An eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead

By Hillel Italie Jun. 30, 2020 08:16 AM EDT

In this image released by Showtime, Don Cheadle appears in a scene from the series "Black Monday," returning Sunday on Showtime. (Nicole Wilder/Showtime via AP)
New this week: 'Clemency,' BET Awards, HAIM, 'Doctor Sleep'

By The Associated Press Jun. 22, 2020 02:42 PM EDT

Wall Street losses...Another aid package proposed...Counterfeit masks

May. 12, 2020 05:30 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street fell to its biggest loss since the start of the month on worries about the downside of reopening the economy too soon. The S&P...

FILE - This May 22, 2018 file photo shows PEN literary service award recipient Stephen King, left, and Simon & Schuster president Carolyn Reidy at the 2018 PEN Literary Gala in New York. Reidy died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning, May 12, 2020. She was 71. Her death was announced by company executive Dennis Eulau. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy dies at 71, company says

By Hillel Italie May. 12, 2020 01:53 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press Apr. 29, 2020 02:44 PM EDT
Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers: ___ April 29 The Times Daily on guidance about wearing...

FILE - This May 22, 2018 file photo shows Stephen King at the 2018 PEN Literary Gala in New York. With independent bookstores shut down nationwide, a new online seller is offering help. In January, Andy Hunter launched Bookshop.org. Simon & Schuster is adding buy buttons for Bookshop.org to all of its websites and promoting Bookshop through emails and elsewhere online. It also has enlisted numerous authors, among them Stephen King, Susan Orlean and Jason Reynolds, to get the word out about Bookshop on social media and elsewhere. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
New online store offers help to shuttered indie booksellers

By Hillel Italie Apr. 02, 2020 02:25 PM EDT