A lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirdaa presents an insider’s account of...

Local author and journalist Darryl Levings discusses his new book, a work of historical fiction that follows Price’s Raid in 1864...

Spend an Afternoon with four Contemporary African American Authors Keith Lee Johnson, author of the Lit...

Renowned stage and screen actor Hal Holbrook visits the Kansas City Public Library on Wednesday, November 9, 2011...

What if growing old meant writing the novel you’ve always wanted to write, or painting, or singing, or teaching, or traveling to a place you’ve always...

Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, and a military veteran whose experiences flying missions over France during Wo...

Supreme Discomfort, written by Washington Post staffers Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher...

Kansans Osa and Martin Johnson became world-renowned adventurers and filmmakers who recorded their daring travels an...

On May 22, 2011, a massive EF-5 tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri, killing 159 people and injuring countless others. Reporters Eric Adler...

In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative...