John Champlin Gardner, Jr., novelist, epic poet, and scholar, was born in Batavia, New York, on 21 July 1933 to John Champlin and Priscilla Jones Gardner. As a boy he lived in Batavia, attended the local schools, and worked on his father's farm. His moth...

A vastly prolific author of thirty-five books in a career spanning only twenty-five years, John Gardner penned novels, criticism, short stories, works for young readers, a biography of Chaucer, plays, and libretti. Best known for his novels Grendel, The...

TARA SULLIVAN, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 09-22-2003 REDEMPTION -- Giants pull it out to avoid second straight collapse By TARA SULLIVAN, STAFF WRITER Date: 09-22-2003, Monday Section: SPORTS Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition LANDOVER, Md. - In...

In selecting Anne Hawley to be director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the museum's directors may have found the formula for making this idiosyncratic Boston institution the exciting cultural attraction that it could be. As executive director of the Massachusetts Council on...

There was a certain generic familiarity to the proceedings at the jam-packed city auditorium in Lowell, Mass., on Sunday night: With Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best” blaring and more than 2,500 Democrats screaming and stomping their feet in delight, Bill Clinton strolled onto the stage...

Michael Lohan wants to patch things up with his family. "Reconciliation and redemption — across the board," says Lohan, a born-again Christian. "Just all of us getting right with God."Lohan's 21-year-old daughter Lindsay, star of "Mean Girls," "Freaky Friday" and other films, has said that...