In a new age of auto-signatures and celebrity selfies, it’s easy to dismiss autographs as a dying art. But to Josh Kun, author and director of the USC Annenberg School of Communication, autographs are ...

Josh Kun wanted to document Los Angeles’ history through autographs, so he started in an obvious place: the signatures of the famous. But then he went to an unexpected place: the streets, where he ...

Tetsuo Nozoe’s hobby started innocently enough. The chemistry professor, of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, asked for a simple signature in a blank notebook as a remembrance of his visit to West ...

A new exhibit showing the Los Angeles Public Library’s autograph collection explores the lure of the autograph — a yearning to capture a piece of someone — and what it says about human nature. The ...

In 2018, a 1939 baseball with the signatures of 11 Hall of Famers sold for $623,369. The most valuable autograph ever sold, ...

I recently purchased autographed copies of books by John Green, George Saunders and David Sedaris, even though I haven’t been within a thousand miles of any of them in recent months. More and more, ...

If you were a teenager in the ’50s, you probably had an autograph book. It was a 4-by-6-inch leather booklet, the cover reading “Autographs” printed in gold, with blank pages inside. In this booklet, ...

I don’t remember how many times I have asked that question. No one has ever said, “No.” The result is a small booklet that is a storehouse full of memories. Many names in my autograph book were ...

With Mary Todd Lincoln, Mark Twain and even Oscar Wilde, a mystery remains: How did Lafayette Cornwell get all these people to autograph his book? By James Barron The little book is a relic from the ...

The autograph book is one of the most requested items at Kilmainham Jail in Dublin. A collection of autograph books owned by prisoners during the 1916 Easter Rising was published online in 2017. The ...

Bay Area bookseller Bill Petrocelli is filing a lawsuit against the state of California, hoping to force a repeal of the state’s controversial “Autograph Law.” The law, booksellers claim, threatens to ...