He also brought shrewd intelligence to writing Broadway hits, Hollywood screenplays, television dramas and a trio of mysteries still in print after 50 years.
When he wasn't writing, he was popping up in movies, playing himself in "Fellini's Roma," a sinister plotter in sci-fi thriller "Gattaca" and a U.S. senator in "Bob Roberts." The grandson of a U.S. senator, he also made two entertaining but unsuccessful forays into politics, running for the Senate from California and the House of Representatives from New York.
In other spare moments, he demolished intellectual rivals like Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley Jr. with acidic one-liners, establishing himself as a peerless master of talk-show punditry.
The Library of Congress has announced Arthur Sze as the 25th U.S. poet laureate. Sze has...
Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year,...
In late February of 2024, Jordanian cargo planes flew over northern Gaza, dropping large pallets of...
