Many authors dream of writing a novel that becomes a major motion picture. For Kaui Hart Hemmings, that dream became a reality when the director Alexander Payne called her in 2009 to say he'd like her ...

She wrote the novels for the hit Disney villain series “The Descendants.” Now, author Melissa de la Cruz pens the novel “The Road Trip” set in between seasons of the Disney+ series “High School ...

THE FRENCH by Francois Nourissier. 309 pages. Knopf. $6.95. ç “No one appears to give much thought to revolt,” writes François Nourissier in The French, which obviously went to press too soon. “Our ...

Six out of the nine Best Picture Academy Award nominees announced this morning were based on books: Hugo, War Horse, Moneyball, The Descendants, The Help, and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.