John Updike was most frequently celebrated for his masterful novels — including Rabbit Run (1960) and Couples (1968) — and expressive short stories. The writer, who died in 2009 at age 76, also kept a ...

Billy Collins, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, one CD, 1.5 hrs., $20 ISBN 978-0-385-36639-7 Two-term Poet Laureate Collins offers up this compilation of poems from the chapbooks he ...

Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington, discuses winning the Pulitzer for her book "Late Wife," a compilation of poems about loves lost, marriage and divorce. For Claudia ...

Robert Grappel is a member of the Air Traffic Surveillance Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory. As a Concord resident, Grappel spends his days immersed in the ...

Selected by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, illus. by Marjorie Priceman. Little, Brown, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-316-04051-8 Andrews and Hamilton follow Julie Andrews’ Collection of Poems, ...