‘DON’T BE AFRAID’: FINAL WORDS FROM SEAMUS HEANEY
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK FILE – Sunday, Dec. 10, 1995 photo from files showing Irish poet Seamus Heaney, center, displaying his Nobel literature prize medal, surrounded by his family, from left:…
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UNLIKELY SALINGER DETECTIVE SPENT DECADE ON TRAIL
By HILLEL ITALIE This undated image provided by The Story Factory, shows J.D. Salinger working on “Catcher in the Rye” during World War II. Shane Salerno, a screenwriter, has taken…
IRISH POET NOBEL WINNER SEAMUS HEANEY DIES AT 74
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK FILE – A Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2004 photo from files showing former Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney speaking during a rehearsal for the Northern Irish national…
‘FREE AT LAST,’ MANDELA SAID, QUOTING KING
By JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this May 2, 1994 file photo Nelson Mandela, and Coretta Scott King, left, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., sing…
APNEWSBREAK: AUTHOR BERRY WINS OHIO PEACE AWARD
By DAN SEWELL In this March 10, 2011 photo, author Wendell Berry talks with a reporter at his home in Port Royal, Ky. For his career of writings about the…
ADICHIE FOC– USES ON NIGERIA’S PRESENT FOR NEW NOVEL
By JON GAMBRELL In this photo taken, Saturday, April. 27, 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, speaks to Associated press during an interview in Lagos, Nigeria. Modern life in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest…
RUSHDIE RELIVES MAGIC OF ‘MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN’
By HILLEL ITALIE FILE – This Sept. 8, 2012 file photo shows author Salman Rushdie posing during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto. Rushdie is promoting the film…
ADAM JOHNSON WINS FICTION PULITZER
By HILLEL ITALIE This undated photo provided by the Pulitzer Prize Board shows Adam Johnson, who was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for “The Orphan Master’s Son,” on…