Harrison Smith is a reporter on The Washington Post's obituaries desk, where he has worked since 2015. He covers people who have made a significant impact on their field, city or country — a ...

Timothy Curran, who rose to top editor at Roll Call, a Capitol Hill publication, before holding high-level editing jobs at The Washington Post, was found dead Feb. 9 at his home in the District.

“It seemed overwhelming, but it seemed that we could not leave things that way,” he told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ... professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Matt Schudel has been an obituary writer at The Washington Post since 2004. He previously worked for publications in Washington, New York, North Carolina and Florida. In addition to writing ...

writing columns for the Christian Century and speaking to reporters at The Washington Post and NPR, among other outlets, about the way faith has shaped everything from business and politics to ...

“I am a person who has managed to last because I have chosen to stay true to my own ideals and principles, and true to my own experience,” Ms. Flack told The Washington Post in 1989.

He kept a framed photo of Nicaraguan immigrants lifting him into the air after the bill passed, once telling The Washington Post that it was “the most emotionally impactful moment” of his ...

James Harrison, an Australian railway clerk who helped save 2.4 million babies by donating the rare antibodies in his blood every two weeks for more than 60 years, died Feb. 17 at a nursing home ...

“Who’s interested in London, Paris or the Leaning Tower of Pisa?” Ms. Duncan had remarked to The Washington Post in 1968 in an off-the-cuff statement of her credo. “Everybody’s been ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The ...