At the beginning of 1962, a tall, thin-lipped thirty-three-year-old named James Ivory and a charming, cleft-chinned twenty-five-year-old named Ismail Merchant turned up on the doorstep of a bungalow ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This morning, the writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passed away, at the age of eighty-five. Beginning in 1957, Jhabvala published thirty-one stories in The New Yorker; her most recent story, “The Judge’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, ...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the German-born screenwriter and novelist who, as the writing member of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking team, won two Academy Awards for adaptations of genteel, class-conscious E.M ...

Long before I discovered who Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was, I knew her work — and you probably do too. She adapted both “A Room With a View” and “Howards End” by E.M. Forster for the big screen, winning ...

(Reuters) - Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, author of "Heat and Dust" and many other books set in India, died on Wednesday at the age of 85, her Los Angeles agent said.

WHEN she was put on the spot, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala liked to say she came from nowhere. It was hard to prove her wrong. Her accent gave little away: central Europe, north London, Delhi and New York ...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, prolific German-born writer of Jewish descent who lived on three continents, including two decades in India, died at 85 yesterday at her home in New York. A critically acclaimed ...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s screenplays did not scream, or even appear to make profound statements. The sorrow was matter-of-fact. It took me a while to understand the detachment. As part of the ...

Screenwriter and novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who collaborated for five decades with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant and won Oscars for “A Room With a View” and “Howards End,” died of a pulmonary ...