[This entry was updated by Gina Macdonald (Loyola University) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 107-127.] Author of thirty-six novels, which have been translated into nearly two dozen languages and have...

Author of twenty-nine novels, which have been translated into nearly two dozen languages and which have sold more than twenty million copies, Dick Francis is unequaled at making horse racing come alive. In fact, Philip Larkin (Times Literary Supplement,...

Raised in a family of jockeys, Dick Francis rode professionally for ten years, became Champion Jockey in 1954 and nearly won the Grand National on the Queen Mother's horse, Devon Loch. Mystery still surrounds the event. Ahead by several lengths, the hors...

ROBERT FELDBERG, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-30-2007 Grief comes to all, Didion warns -- In play of 'Magical Thinking,' an author recalls the fog of loss By ROBERT FELDBERG, STAFF WRITER Date: 03-30-2007, Friday Section: GO! Edtion: All Editions...

HOW I DID IT Helping kids come to grips with grief By SISTER CONNIE TAYLOR as told to Mary Louise Schumacher Sunday, August 17, 2003 They say the choices you make in life can make or break you. As hard...

The parodists have it wrong. They’ve turned the phrase most identified with Greta Garbo—“I want to be alone”—into something that might have issued from Bela Lugosi. Garbo did not pronounce the “w” as a “v” (she says “want,” not “vant”); she did not declaim those...

In her half-century-plus in Manhattan, Pat Buckley has been known as a socialite, a fashion icon, a lady who lunches, a social X-ray, a grande dame, a superb hostess and the woman behind the man behind modern conservatism. Friends call her stunning, larger than life,...