A best-selling author and financial education expert will speak in the area Aug. 11 to provide advice for small business owners in a tough financial climate.

Christian theologian and author Margaret Starbird regarded it as blasphemy the first time she heard the assertion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child together.

The staff and students of Kyrene de los Cerritos welcomed author Sean Covey to their campus on Jan. 27 and showed how their school has integrated his 7 Habits into daily instruction.

The staff and students of Kyrene de los Cerritos welcomed author Sean Covey to their campus on Jan. 27 and showed how their school has integrated his 7 Habits into daily instruction.

Each month, best-selling author and Phoenix resident Martha Beck dispenses concrete, specific advice in Oprah's O magazine, helping readers navigate the speed bumps of careening modern life.

SAN FRANCISCO - David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who chronicled the Vietnam War generation, civil rights and the world of sports, was killed in a car crash Monday, his wife and local authorities said. He was 73.

LOS ANGELES - Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers - Broadway theater, movies and television - then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.

December 28, 2004

NEW YORK - Author J.K. Rowling is eager to tell a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes a "Harry Potter" encyclopedia he plans to publish does not violate her copyrights.

NEW YORK - Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound in books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus."

NEW YORK - In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound.

NEW YORK - Best-selling writer Ira Levin, whose genre-hopping novels such as the horror classic "Rosemary's Baby" and the Nazi thriller "The Boys From Brazil" provided meaty movie roles for Mia Farrow and Laurence Olivier, has died of a heart attack, his agent said Tuesday. He was 78.

NEW YORK -- Attention "Twilight" fans: Stephenie Meyer has a new book coming out.

Tickets to meet J.A. Jance sold out even faster than the best-selling author’s books. Jance joined 240 members of the community at the Palm Ridge Recreation Center in Sun City West Saturday morning for breakfast as part of the book tour for her newest crime novel “Fatal Error.”

Tickets to meet J.A. Jance sold out even faster than the best-selling author’s books. Jance joined 240 members of the community at the Palm Ridge Recreation Center in Sun City West Saturday morning for breakfast as part of the book tour for her newest crime novel “Fatal Error.”

LONDON - Dan Brown took the stand Monday to rebut accusations that he copied from other writers' work to produce his huge best-seller "The Da Vinci Code."

BANNING, Calif. - Marilyn Ferguson, whose best-selling book "The Aquarian Conspiracy" helped establish the New Age movement by tying together its disparate threads, has died. She was 70.

Doors have been flying open for comedian, writer and Cosmopolitan magazine contributor Greg Behrendt since he wrote the best-selling “He's Just Not That Into You: The No Excuses Book to Understanding Guys” in 2004.

NEW YORK - Author Jonathan Lethem was a big fan of the comic "Omega the Unknown" when he was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, and he was pretty depressed when the superhero vanished from corner store shelves.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - Though he's been hit with lawsuits and rebuffed by the Vatican, author Dan Brown said Sunday it's not his responsibility to address controversies stirred up by his book, "The Da Vinci Code."

Forget the doughnut with your morning coffee. Bestselling writer Julia Cameron said "morning pages" can do you more good.