Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer has died of renal failure at the age of 84. Mailer won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Armies of the Night in 1968 and The Executioner's Song in 1979.

The author of “Harry Potter” J.K.Rowling together with the maker of the film about the small wizard are trying to avert publishing the book version of a Web site about Harry Potter.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has written a new book, her first since the final best-seller about the boy wizard came out earlier this year, she told BBC radio.

Yves Bonnefoy, the best French poet, has received a prestigious Czech literary prize in Prague on Tuesday. An international jury that included prominent German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki and British publisher John Calder selected Bonnefoy in March to win the annual Franz Kafka Prize awarded by the Prague-based Franz Kafka Society.

JK Rowling, whose Harry Potter series made her the first billionaire author, says she is surprised at the fuss surrounding her announcement that the boy wizard's head teacher, Albus Dumbledore, was gay.

Former US vice president Al Gore will receive a second Quill award today at the third annual event that was created to bring glamour and Oscar-style red carpet extravagance to the world of publishing.

Harry Potter might have waved his wand and cast a spell, but author JK Rowling sat down and cheerfully signed 1,600 books for schoolkids on Monday as she launched her first US book tour in seven years.

Random House, the world's biggest book publisher, is considering joining a ground-breaking book-search project run by Google, once considered an arch-enemy by the paper publishing industry.

The the Swedish Academy announced Thursday that Doris Lessing, a British writer, had won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature. She was said to be "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny."

Barnes and Noble, the world's largest book retailer, has decided to sell OJ Simpson's book If I Did It in its shops, reversing an earlier decision to offer the controversial title only on the web.

English novelist Jane Austen wrote with exquisite detail about lives and loves in eighteenth-century English society, but she herself never married and little is known about the author's own romances. A new film aims to fill that gap with a fanciful recreation of how a relationship might have changed her life and sparked creation of her most memorable characters.

Less than a week after the release of the final Harry Potter book, author J.K. Rowling is giving hints about its conclusion. Before publication, Rowling pleaded for secrecy about the ending of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." But in an interview broadcast Thursday on NBC's "Today" show and in one published Thursday in USA Today, she discussed Harry's fate.