You don’t have to live a haunting life of unparalleled grief and sorrow to be a great children’s author, but it helps.

J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, agreed. During his childhood in the 1870s, Barrie played pirate-adventure games in the garden and woods surrounding the property. Decades later, these games ...

The journalist and author chooses his six favourite children’s books. His new book, "The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood ...

as well as “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie. Books by authors W.E.B. Du Bois, Agatha Christie, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and Robert Frost will now be public domain, among thousands of others.

Who will be the last person standing in our particular set of longtime friends, the regulars, the keepers? Who gets to post ...

In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri ... Louis once wrote to J.M. Barrie that Fanny was “always either loathed or slavishly adored; indifference impossible.” ...

Aladdin, a beloved Disney film, is filled with humor, adventure, and memorable characters. One surprising detail that many ...

More than 200 years after a ceiling painted by the Tuscan artist Vasari was dismembered and sold on the antiquarian market, ...

After being a pop culture mainstay for nearly a century, Batman is getting his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, ...

(CNN) -- The following is an edited transcript of a chat with Harvard University psychiatrist Dr. Barrie Sanford Greiff, author of "Legacy ... because of JFK Jr. I'm 33, so about the same generation.