Arnie Dienoff was headed to a Sunday afternoon estate sale in St. Charles, Missouri, when he spotted a bright yellow notebook ...

And the deepest things when they bubble to the surface tend to stir the strongest urges to write,” he told The Washington Post in 1986, reflecting on his rural hometown after winning the ...

The Tesla executive and the former presidential candidate are meeting with staff and interviewing experts as they plan for ...

Thomas E. Kurtz, who translated the exhilarating power of computer science in the 1960s as the coinventor of BASIC, a programming language that replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with ...

Clifton R. Wharton Jr., who shattered racial barriers in a multifaceted career in education, international development and business, serving as the first Black president of a major, predominantly ...

“I was fascinated to see how trivial their experiences were, compared with mine,” Mr. Frommer told The Washington Post in 1987 about luxury travelers. “I felt angry. I felt superio ...

When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted ...

Harrison Smith is a reporter on The Washington Post's obituaries desk, where he has worked since 2015. He covers people who have made a significant impact on their field, city or country — a ...

Arthur Frommer, a pioneering travel publishing giant, died on Nov. 18 at age 95, leaving behind a lasting legacy that ...

Duchon, a successful north suburban doctor and mother to a young girl, died Sunday after being shot in her ex-boyfriend's townhome.