Every family shares a stage, but some are more crowded than others. In her exquisite new historical novel, Booth, acclaimed author Karen Joy Fowler raises the curtain on a cast of ego-driven, ...

Everyone is someone's baby, even killers, mass shooters and presidential assassins. How culpable is a family when one of its babies grows up to be one of history’s monsters? What happens to the love ...

A few years ago, I enjoyed reading Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.” So when “Booth” came out, I immediately picked it up. “Booth” explores a complex family of Shakespearean ...

Scott Simon asks Karen Joy Fowler about her new historical novel, "Booth," in which she focuses on the parents and siblings of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. I did not want to write a ...

I did not want to write a book about John Wilkes, Karen Joy Fowler says in an author's note to her new novel, which is "Booth," as in John Wilkes Booth. This is a man who craved attention and has ...