It was a few days before my birthday, deep in the never-ending month of January — I’m guessing it was somewhere around the 39th. This year, my birthday fell on a Tuesday, lamest of all days. So I ...

Eighteen books in (the latest is “Every Tom, Dick & Harry”), she still recalls an editor’s note urging more action: “Could ...

Joan Didion's diary of post-therapy notes, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is going to be published in 'Notes ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.