Book People

This past Monday, PBS released the first of its three-part, six-hour documentary exploring the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

By most accounts, Robert E. Hart (1878-1946) was a private man.

Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Victoria Forsberg-Lary of

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Harvard University Press,

Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and esteemed antiquarian bookseller, who died last week at the age of 84, was something of a patron saint of bibliophi

Just a few weeks ago, the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, presented an online conversation with author/illustrator Edward Carey.

Our Bright Young Collectors series continues today with Emily Wells, an honorable mention in the

Art and memorabilia from the Bel Air home of celebrity author Judith Krantz will go to auction in Los Angeles on April 8.

We learned earlier this week about the death of antiquarian bookseller Dorothy Sloan, “a pioneering woman in the book trade,” according to fellow bookseller John Windle.

The 250th anniversary of the Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), author of Ivanhoe, Waverley, and Rob Roy, will be an occasion for a series of ev