So, here's a compilation of 50 famous people who were murdered, died during sex or in a freak accident, vanished without a ...

On Aug. 9, 1969, the 8-months-pregnant Tate and her friends — Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski — were at ...

Mansfield's costar, Wilfred Lytell, desperately tried to save her, throwing his coat over her to smother the flames, but the damage was done — she suffered horrific burns over her body. Mansfield was ...

It is, in fact, only the second ever. Yet now, if you ask someone to name a war poet, they will probably mention Wilfred Owen before Sassoon or Brooke, let alone Blunden or Gurney. Although Owen only ...

There is much talk nowadays about war and peace. The poems that follow illustrate the brutish and destroying essence of war and therefore reinforce the need for ways to avoid it. In one of my last ...

Celebrated actor Valerie Mahaffey, whose stage, film and television work ranged from Shakespeare to the hit 1990s series “Northern Exposure,” died at age 71 after a battle with cancer ...

The versatile, restless, maddeningly guileful artist Rashid Johnson—whose career-spanning survey exhibition, “A Poem for Deep Thinkers,” is now up at the Guggenheim, inhabiting almost the ...

By Ash Wu Alice Notley, a prizewinning poet who exulted in disobeying literary traditions in creating dreamlike worlds that drew from myth, motherhood and the voices of the dead, died on May 19 in ...