The ‘News of the World’ author was brilliant and driven and, sometimes, prickly. She leaves behind a beloved body of work.

I see big, fat orange pumpkins in the Fall. I hear birds singing in the Fall. I smell pumpkin guts when you are carving. I taste spicy pumpkin pie baking. I feel brown, crunchy leaves when I step ...

When Stephanie Pruitt sits down to write a poem, she often starts with a "What if" question that carries her into the mind of a stranger or a world of alternate possibility. Last year, as Pruitt ...