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Perhaps it's a cold truth, but sometimes death burnishes an author's reputation. It was only after she committed suicide that Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Posthumous Literature | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...reports that our esteemed President has won the fourth annual American History book prize for her 6th book  "The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Congrats, Drew! | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

Renzo Piano—the prize-winning architect who was tapped to renovate the Fogg Art Museum and design a new art museum in Allston—described the difficulties of the upcoming projects to a packed Sanders Theatre audience last night. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...

Author: By Teresa M. Cotsirilos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fogg Architect Describes Plans | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

Jain wouldn’t comment on who won what, or how much each prize cost, but we do know that Zachary C. Sifuentes, an Adams House tutor and resident poet, won the right to pie House Master Sean Palfrey...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Adams Auctions Off Estate Items...Sort Of | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...auction with the sole intent of upping the bid—but I ended up with it,” Sifuentes said. “I think I'm going to give it away as a prize for some strange competition in the House...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Adams Auctions Off Estate Items...Sort Of | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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