Category: author

Cormac McCarthy, Lauded Author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men,’ Dies at 89

SANTA FE, N.M.—Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian,” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint, announced that McCarthy…


Utah Kids’ Book Author Accused in Husband’s Killing Changed Life Insurance Policies, Prosecutors Say

SALT LAKE CITY—A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later arrested on accusations of killing him made changes to her husband’s life insurance years before he was fatally poisoned, according to charging documents updated Thursday. The additional allegations, which were previously mentioned in search warrants but…


Utah Children’s Book Author Accused in Husband’s Killing Changed Life Insurance Policies, Prosecutors Say

SALT LAKE CITY—A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband’s death and was later arrested on accusations of killing him made changes to her husband’s life insurance years before he was fatally poisoned, according to charging documents updated Thursday. The additional allegations, which were previously mentioned in search warrants but…


Utah Mother Accused of Murdering Husband Tangled in Estate Dispute

SALT LAKE CITY—A children’s book author who prosecutors say killed her husband has been battling with his relatives over the family estate since his death last year, court documents show. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of poisoning her husband with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their home in a small mountain town near Park…


Traveling Light Ep4

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Most of us like to travel. What we don’t like is the baggage we’re carrying around. But what if you could travel through life with no bags at all? In this 18-part teaching series, bestselling author and speaker Max Lucado invites you…


Traveling Light Ep3

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Most of us like to travel. What we don’t like is the baggage we’re carrying around. But what if you could travel through life with no bags at all? In this 18-part teaching series, bestselling author and speaker Max Lucado invites you…


Traveling Light Ep2

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Most of us like to travel. What we don’t like is the baggage we’re carrying around. But what if you could travel through life with no bags at all? In this 18-part teaching series, bestselling author and speaker Max Lucado invites you…


Traveling Light Ep1

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Most of us like to travel. What we don’t like is the baggage we’re carrying around. But what if you could travel through life with no bags at all? In this 18-part teaching series, bestselling author and speaker Max Lucado invites you…


US Charges 3 in Plot to Kill Iranian-American Author in NYC

WASHINGTON—The Justice Department has charged three men as part of an Iran-backed plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses, officials said Friday. The men, Rafat Amirov, 43, of Iran, Polad Omarov, 38, of the Czech Republic and Slovenia and Khalid Mehdiyev, 24, of Yonkers, New…


An American’s Gripping Story of Escaping to Freedom During China’s Cultural Revolution

Two hundred words, and the future she dreamed of would be within reach. That is, 200 words condemning her American father, regurgitating the Chinese Communist Party line that he was “a servile follower of capitalism and an enemy of the Chinese people,” and declaring that she was severing all ties with him. “Write that,” a…