(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

What was your favorite book as a kid? That question makes for a surprisingly effective icebreaker. You can tell a lot about someone from the books they read as a child. Case in point: I’m a journalist ...

Memories of her loving son, Michael, who died of cardiac arrest at the age of 16 in 2016, inspired Sonoma resident Kristy ...

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Over the decades that I’ve been a professional writer, dozens of people have told me they want to write a book about their inner and outer lives as cabbies, baristas, pet sitters, pizza deliverers, ...

Derrick Barnes felt there wasn't wide enough representation of Black people in the books he read as a kid. The Kansas City native's new picture book, “I Got You,” is his latest effort to write ...

TULSA, Okla. — A Tulsa woman is teaching kids about equality through her new children’s book. Zuri Louis always planned on writing a children’s book eventually. She just wasn’t sure when she would ...

Recent Maynard High School graduate Miller Norris authored a children's book about financial literacy. He was inspired to write "Penny and the Magical Money Tree" because schools don't teach basic ...

Local teen Lila Shea transforms her own struggles with divorce and anxiety into the children's book 'Little Lola's Beautiful ...