It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency.

Nobel laureate Alice Munro has died.

Author Sarah Bernstein has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel “Study for Obedience.”.

Joni Mitchell has received honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the century old institution where general inductees have ranged from Henry James and Georgia O’Keeffe to Sonny Rollins and Jasper Johns.