SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Pico Iyer flew in from Japan to visit his former hometown of Santa Barbara on Wednesday afternoon. The author didn't waste any time relaxing, Iyer got right to work at a book ...

PASADENA, Calif. — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.

34 years after a wildfire turned his life upside down, novelist shared how it transformed his life at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, a community devastated by the deadly Eaton Fire earlier this month ...

The Los Angeles Times today announced the finalists and honorees for its 45th annual Book Prizes. Pico Iyer will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement and Amanda Gorman will be ...

In 1990, a California wildfire incinerated Pico Iyer’s family home. When Iyer reached safety, he filed a story about it for TIME magazine. Though he lost 15 years of notes and three of his unfinished ...

Pico Iyer is a travel writer’s travel writer, one of a small elite among the living (also Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Jan Morris) whose travel writing ranks as literature. In an era when most travel ...

With the famously private novelist enjoying a (private) moment in the sun, we reached out to die-hard fans who’ve tuned in to the zaniness all along. By Tim Teeman Tips from writers, artists and a ...