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Her Denver bookstore, the Tattered Cover, was among the country's best, and she often found herself in the midst of First Amendment fights. In 1995 the writer A.E. Hotchner presented [...]

He brought his adaptation of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' to Broadway and won Tony Awards. He also directed the long-running hit ''Ragtime.'' Frank Galati, a writer, director and actor whose [...]

She had success with a play about abortion in 2001, and in 2015 wrote the libretto for the opera ''Charlie Parker's Yardbird.'' Bridgette A. Wimberly, a playwright whose first staged [...]

He worked in jewelry, sculpture and other genres, creating one-of-a-kind pieces and, for the most part, spurning the mainstream art world. Some 62 years ago, Daniel Brush, a 13-year-old from [...]

Byline: Neil Genzlinger As a girl she brought out a childlike quality in Picasso. As an adult she became an authority on his works. Maya Ruiz-Picasso, a daughter of Pablo [...]

He was best known for complex crime dramas like ''Croupier.'' But he also made the big-budget 1980 science-fiction yarn ''Flash Gordon.'' Mike Hodges, a director whose visceral feature-film debut, ''Get [...]

As a girl she brought out a childlike quality in Picasso. As an adult she became an authority on his works. Maya Ruiz-Picasso, a daughter of Pablo Picasso who as [...]

An archaeologist at the Met, he warned about plundered and fake antiquities and about the acquisition practices of collectors and museums, including his own. Oscar White Muscarella, an archaeologist who [...]

Her choices for exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music gave foreign directors and newcomers valuable exposure in New York. Adrienne Mancia, who scoured [...]

She taught for decades at the Fieldston School and founded a free summer dance program open to all students in New York. Alice Teirstein, a fixture of the New York [...]

Byline: Neil Genzlinger Her 1952 novel 'Spring Fire' was about a girl who falls in love with a sorority sister. As M.E. Kerr, she wrote popular young adult books. Marijane [...]

A sought-after character actor for decades, he worked frequently with James Garner. He also wrote and directed. Stuart Margolin, a character actor best known for playing the sidekick to James [...]

Her 1952 novel ''Spring Fire'' was about a girl who falls in love with a sorority sister. As M.E. Kerr, she wrote popular young adult books. Marijane Meaker, a versatile [...]

In the 1940s and '50s she was a glamorous Black star when there were few. Then she became a missionary. Joyce Bryant, a sultry singer of the 1940s and '50s [...]

A virtual unknown when she joined the cast of the hit sitcom in 1987, she became a star and a decade later had her own show, ''Veronica's Closet.'' Kirstie Alley, [...]

He drew the best from complex instruments at Riverside Church in Manhattan, at countless recitals and on the ''Hour of Power'' TV show. Frederick Swann, who in churches on the [...]

For decades he wrote about theater in The Village Voice, but he also was a dramaturge and a Tony-nominated translator. Michael Feingold, whose learned writing about the theater was a [...]

Byline: Neil Genzlinger She was serious about issues related to sex for money. But she also spoke through an amusing persona she called Scarlot Harlot. Carol Leigh, who sought to [...]

He came from a wealthy family, but he championed the ideas of the counterculture. Journalists called him ''the hippie millionaire.'' Michael Butler, a flamboyant financier and producer who brought the [...]

Byline: Neil Genzlinger He came from a wealthy family, but he championed the ideas of the counterculture. Journalists called him 'the hippie millionaire.' Michael Butler, a flamboyant financier and producer [...]

She was serious about issues related to sex for money. But she also spoke through an amusing persona she called Scarlot Harlot. Carol Leigh, who sought to change the image [...]

Byline: Neil Genzlinger She was part of a musical family of Scottish Travellers that furthered the nation's folk revival and influenced its American counterpart. Elizabeth Stewart, a folk singer, pianist [...]

She was part of a musical family of Scottish Travellers that furthered the nation's folk revival and influenced its American counterpart. Elizabeth Stewart, a folk singer, pianist and composer who [...]

Her restaurant in Dartmouth, England, received a Michelin star in the 1970s, a rare honor for a kitchen presided over by a woman. Joyce Molyneux, an innovative chef whose unpretentious [...]

He made a name for himself in British satires, then late in his career reached a different audience as the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter movies. [...]

His main medium was paint, but his most viewed work may have been the outdoor memorial in Queens to Flight 587. Freddy Rodríguez, an artist who explored colonization, immigration and [...]

His one-man Off Broadway show, ''Everything's Fine,'' directed by John Lithgow, had opened just weeks ago. Douglas McGrath, a playwright, screenwriter, director and actor who was nominated for an Oscar, [...]

Byline: Neil Genzlinger A former protégé of John Cage who was once married to Yoko Ono, he was part of a lively experimental music scene in New York and became [...]

Mr. Stern, who drew on his own upbringing and the death of his sister, began writing late in life and earned the 1998 National Book Award, among other accolades. Gerald [...]

A former protégé of John Cage who was once married to Yoko Ono, he was part of a lively experimental music scene in New York and became a leading modern [...]

She handled the sales of the great caricaturist's works and told stories of flying Diane Arbus in her plane and encountering the woman who shot Andy Warhol. The scene on [...]

He started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well. Seymour Press, who for more than 60 years served an important role -- [...]

Byline: Neil Genzlinger She and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for 'The Secret Garden.' Lucy Simon, who [...]

In ''City of Quartz'' and other books, he predicted trouble ahead. Events often proved him right. Mike Davis, an urban theorist and historian who in stark, sometimes prescient books wrote [...]

Shows like ''Will & Grace'' made him a familiar face, then the pandemic brought new fame. He was killed in a car crash in Hollywood. Leslie Jordan, a comic actor [...]

She and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for ''The Secret Garden.'' Lucy Simon, who with her sister [...]

Downtown, he was known for sprawling works and vivid performances, but later in his career he drew praise as an actor in mainstream productions, too. Jeff Weiss, a playwright and [...]

A familiar voice on the California airwaves for almost 80 years, he saw the appeal of old rock 'n' roll records practically before they were old. Art Laboe, the disc [...]

She put her career on hold for a time to raise her sons, the actors Sean and Chris Penn and the musician Michael Penn. Eileen Ryan, a stage, television and [...]

At newspapers and then at Deadline, the website she founded, she served up the opposite of fluff entertainment journalism. Nikki Finke, the acerbic, widely read entertainment reporter and blogger who [...]

For two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound. Robert Kalfin, the driving force behind the [...]

Playing the wooden flute and performing hoop dances, he sought to introduce audiences throughout the nation to Native American traditions. Kevin Locke, who brought traditional Native American culture to audiences [...]

She cracked comedy's top ranks with a memorably outlandish act in the 1980s, when the stand-up scene was largely male. Judy Tenuta, a stand-up comic who shot to fame during [...]

She was top-billed in his final feature, ''Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.'' She was also his paramour and, he said, his favorite leading lady. Kitten Natividad, who brought audacity [...]

He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, ''A Soldier's Story.'' Charles Fuller, who won the Pulitzer Prize for [...]

She was a prominent figure in the field of childhood cancer when, in 1974, she helped create the first Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia. Dr. Audrey E. Evans, a pediatric [...]

In 1960 she originated the lone female role in an Off Broadway show that became part of theater history thanks to a record-setting run. Rita Gardner, who in a long [...]

At her galleries and with her financial resources, she supported artists working on art's frontiers and later donated works to museum collections. Virginia Dwan, who through her galleries in Los [...]

A refugee from Nazi-annexed Austria, she started a new life in New York drawing powerful, glamorous heroines and broke barriers in a male-dominated field. In the 1940s, few people reading [...]

He was forever cast as a thug, a hit man or some other nefarious character. But he took pride in his ability to play each bad guy differently. Henry Silva, [...]