“Did Alan Rickman want his diaries published?” Regardless of where I stand on this argument, it made me think of all of the journals and letters of famous writers that were published after they died.

The diaries of a Nazi collaborator. Religious paintings from old Cuzco in Peru. Roman manuscripts dating back to the 9th century. And of course those priceless letters from Columbus — which ...

Letters, oral histories, and diaries all became more common and attractive sources. As counter-histories have become fashionable, North said, the very things that used to be considered flaws of ...

The digitized trove features letters, photographs, diaries, programs, recordings and other artifacts. Photo by Lofman / Pix Inc. / The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images When the Daughters of ...

"I paint myself because that's who I know the best," the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo once wrote in her illustrated diary. So it's fitting that a new documentary about Kahlo's life, now ...

He kept his diaries from 1909 to 1923; they end not long before he died in obscurity, at 40, from tuberculosis. Into them he stuffed all manner of things: letters, drafts of stories, aphorisms ...