From her earliest years, Janet Messineo knew she wanted to be a great fisherman.

Fay Wray, a noted beauty from the Golden Age of Hollywood, had two main love interests in her life.

This year the author series, which runs from July 15 through August 19, will bring seven authors to the Chilmark Community Center to discuss their latest works in conjunction with current events.

On Saturday they jammed the Harbor View Hotel. On Sunday they donned sun hats and trooped up to the Chilmark Community Center. Book lovers were very much in evidence at the seventh Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival.

Two leading journalists took a break from covering Donald Trump last week and spoke candidly about covering the White House.

Erica Armstrong Dunbar was at work on her doctoral dissertation on the lives of black women in the antebellum north when she came across an advertisement that caught her attention.