“Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” edited by Alan Taylor. (Henry Holt, $32.) Clearly, Alan Rickman wrote these journals only for himself; the entries are terse, revealing little. (As
The public gathered in the Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Libraries Building for the induction of Valerie Boyd to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame on Thursday evening.
In addition to writing an acclaimed biography, she encouraged a generation of young writers, predominantly women of color, to pursue careers in nonfiction.