Thomas Hardy, a lead political reporter for the Tribune who later worked for Gov. Jim Edgar and the University of Illinois, has died.

In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and “Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” ...

In 1912, when he was 72, Thomas Hardy began to write a series of love poems about his wife, Emma. The poems were unlikely for several reasons. First, for years he and Emma had been estranged, and ...

In the summer of 1926, Thomas Hardy was visited at his house in Dorset by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, she being "the daughter of his old editor Leslie Stephen." Hardy, Claire Tomalin reports in ...

Thomas Hardy died in 1928; Florence Hardy succumbed to the cancer she feared in 1937. Gertrude Bugler, after a happy life in the country with her husband and child, died at age 95 in 1992.

Thomas Hardy's retreat from the madding crowds: Photos reveal great novelist's Dorset tour of the real-life locations that he wrote into his books ...

Thomas Edmonds Hardy had a big circle of friends and a wide array of interests, much of them centered on art, music, culture and society.

In the most haunting episode in Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” (1874), the inquisitive heroine, Bathsheba Everdene, pries open the coffin of her romantic rival, Fanny Robin, to ...