[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...

Sylvia Friedman lost the New York Times endorsement to challenger Brian Kavanagh. He is riding the Reform Albany message to the hilt. The message worked on 43rd Street, but what are people saying around East 12th Street? Koblin conducted some random interviews and has...

A $1.5 billion personal windfall from a company that started life leveraged to the hilt.It's not a bad payoff for Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr., who said Tuesday he sold chemicals conglomerate Huntsman Corp. to Basell, a holding of U.S. industrialist Len Blavatnik's Access Industries,...

A man charged with fatally stabbing his wife in a frenzy last February testified Monday that his 12-year-old daughter did it and does not remember the murder."If she remembered what I saw, she'd kill herself," Brad Reay, 47, told jurors after taking the stand in...

A man who had blamed his 12-year-old daughter for his wife's stabbing death was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder.Prosecutors said Brad Reay, 47, stabbed his wife to death last winter just days after she asked for a divorce.He killed her in revenge for an affair...