DETROIT—Author and Detroit Free Press columnist Mitch Albom and nine others have been rescued by helicopter from Haiti after becoming stranded in the poverty-stricken and violence-torn Caribbean nation while visiting an orphanage. The group was forced to shelter inside the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Albom said Tuesday in a statement on […]
This episode features Trinity Davis-Floyd, an eight-year-old author of children’s books and a survivor of two open-heart surgeries. Also joining us is pianist and recording artist Jeff Franzel, who has accompanied musical greats such as Frank Sinatra, Josh Groban, Lady Gaga, and more. Tre’ Corley, a multi-Grammy and Dove-winning producer, shares his insights on how […]
Czech-French writer Milan Kundera died in Paris on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Moravian State Library of Brno. He was 94. “Unfortunately I can confirm that Mr. Milan Kundera passed away yesterday [Tuesday] after a prolonged illness,” Anna Mrazova, spokeswoman for the library in his homeland, said. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said […]
SANTA FE, N.M.—Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian,” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy […]
SALT LAKE CITY—A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later arrested on accusations of killing him made changes to her husband’s life insurance years before he was fatally poisoned, according to charging documents updated Thursday. The additional allegations, which were previously mentioned in search warrants but […]
SALT LAKE CITY—A children’s book author who prosecutors say killed her husband has been battling with his relatives over the family estate since his death last year, court documents show. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in a small mountain town near Park […]
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has charged three men in an alleged plot that originated in Iran to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses there, officials said Friday. The men, Rafat Amirov, 43, of Iran, Polad Omarov, 38, of the Czech Republic and Slovenia and Khalid Mehdiyev, 24, […]
Sixth-grader William Daniel published his book “You’re Joking Me: Jokes for Kids by a Kid” on Nov. 8, making him one of the youngest to do so. He has a passion to make people happy and hopes to inspire other people, young and old, to pursue their talents. Daniel created the book containing over 450 […]
A 13-year-old is about to publish his first book next week. He has a passion to make people happy and hopes to inspire other kids to pursue their talents. NTD spoke with him to find out how he achieved his dreams at such a young age.
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwanese author Iris Chiang hardly seems like the type whose work would be banned from publication in China. Yet four years after being sold to a Chinese publisher, her book teaching children how to appreciate art has yet to go to press, a victim of heightened tensions between China and Taiwan that are spilling […]
The author of a New York Times op-ed and book who was known as “anonymous” has revealed himself as Miles Taylor, who now works as a CNN contributor. He was critical of President Trump’s administration following a short time as the Department of Homeland Security’s chief of staff in 2018.
NEW YORK—Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning “Queen of Suspense” whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world’s most popular writers, died Friday at age 92. Her publisher, Simon & Schuster, announced that she died of natural causes in Naples, Florida. “Nobody ever bonded more completely with her readers […]
On Tuesday, a decision was made for that conspiracy theorist James Fetzer, who co-authored “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook”, pay $450,000 to the victim’s father Lenny Pozner for defaming his family, according to ABC News.
The creator of Paddington Bear, a marmalade-loving refugee from Peru who entertained generations of children with his exploits in London, died on Tuesday aged 91. Michael Bond, who named his bear after the London railway station where Paddington arrived, died following a short illness, his publisher HarperCollins said. Wearing a tag on his coat that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the publication of her new self-help book, Ivanka Trump must navigate complicated ethical territory.The focus of intense public interest, the first daughter and unpaid White House adviser has somewhat sought to limit her profile. But this week she came out with “Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success,” a book […]
