Marcia Marcus, a figurative and conceptual artist with a steely will and a bold contemporary style who found fame in the 1960s and then was largely...
John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was...
She wrote for many ages, from picture books to young adult fiction. Her children led her to create a series of books about two pigs named...
Sam Keen, a pop psychologist and philosopher whose best-selling book “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man” urged men to get in touch with their...
Leonardo Augustus Patterson was born on April 15, 1942, in Limon, a town on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Little is known about his family...
Paul McDonough, whose evocative candid photographs, often of crowds, captured what he called the galvanizing energy of turned-on New Yorkers and the tired West Coast venues...
Joe DePugh, the Little League teammate of Bruce Springsteen who inspired that rocker’s hit song “Glory Days,” a rousing, bittersweet anthem to their hardscrabble childhoods in...
“Most actors recognize there’s something different in Val than meets the eye,” Mr. Stone said in a 2007 interview for a segment of the television series...
Kathan Brown, the founder of the San Francisco-based company Crown Point Press, who helped revive the centuries-old art of intaglio printmaking in the United States, producing...
He performed the same service for Mr. Carter when he took over the magazine in 1992. In 1996, Mr. Carter was eager for the writer Sally...
