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Maulik Pancholy was scheduled to give a talk on anti-bullying at a Pennsylvania school next month. School board members scrapped it, citing concerns about his activism and “lifestyle.”

Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.

His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.

She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.

How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.

After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.

When the author received an impassioned email, he dropped everything to visit the students who inspired it.

Plain, direct language remains rare and desirable — and risky in ways that those in authority, even more than the rest of us, try to avoid.

She created one of the world’s best-known characters for children, and fought to have the book published, but she never sought celebrity status.