Patricia Highsmith was an American author who specialized in psychological thrillers and dark character studies. She ...

No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia ... the author would briefly take a very different path: writing a romance, with shades of autobiography. In the late Forties, Highsmith started seeing ...

MacLachlan (Edward's Eyes) delivers a strong, spare novel about the power of writing to transform. When a famous writer visits a fourth-grade classroom, she helps five friends discover how writing ...

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Patricia C. McKissack, Author, Frederick L. McKissack, Author, John McKissack, Author. Scholastic Press $16 (173p) ISBN 978-0-439-92983-7 Thirteen-year-old Leanna has run from slave catchers with ...

By Laura Miller Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required ...

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Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor-Advised Funds Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift. Author Patricia Highsmith wrote her ...

The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution. By A.O. Scott The domestic drama runs high in “A Reason to See You Again,” Jami Attenberg ...

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Leonard Maltin presents 1930s Universal rarities, 'Rhythm Thief' restored, Haile Gerima’s new documentary and a double-bill ...