KAPYTOLIVKA, KYIV AND LVIV, Ukraine — Last fall, the novelist Victoria Amelina found herself frantically digging up a fellow writer's backyard in northeastern Ukraine. She was looking for a diary ...

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Jessie Nguyen is a writer and blogger who was interested in television and movies from a very young age. She would spend hours watching movies and analyzing the plot, characters, and dialogue. As she ...

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In the autumn of 2010, Lynne Freeman, a family-law attorney and an unpublished author, put the final touches on her first novel, “Blue Moon Rising.” The story revolved around a teen-age girl named ...

John Feinstein, a sports writer for the Washington Post and the author of 23 New York Times best-sellers, has died. He was 69. His brother, Robert Feinstein, confirmed the death to the Post but said ...