The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad ... Vargas Llosa described his father as a disciplinarian who viewed his son’s love of Jules ...

There was his early passion for literature, which led him, as a boy, to spend hours poring over adventure novels by Alexandre Dumas and Jules Verne. And there was the bristling antipathy he felt ...

The Milwaukee boy who avidly read Jules Verne novels as a child was ... condition kept him from being one of the original Mercury 7.) Over the next 11 years he would spend a total of 715 hours ...

Palazzari said it was called Nemo after Captain Nemo, the fictional explorateaur made famous by French novelist Jules Verne in science-fiction books, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas" and ...

In the late 19th century, Missouri produced more wine than any other state, and Hermann’s Stone Hill Winery—famous for making one of the world’s best-selling wines—won seven gold medals at ...

He was author of such celebrated novels as 'The Time of the Hero' (La ... as a disciplinarian who viewed his son’s love of Jules Verne and writing poetry as surefire routes to starvation ...

A celebrated author and Nobel literature laureate with Syracuse University ties is dead at age 89. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died in Lima, Peru, on Sunday, while surrounded by his family, ...

He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as "The Time of the Hero ... disciplinarian who viewed his son's love of Jules Verne and writing poetry as surefire routes ...