FLORENCE — John Bunyan Cole, who was known as much for his civic involvement as his popular barbecue business, died Wednesday. He was 76.

Successful English writers were, in John Bunyan's day, nearly synonymous with wealth. Men like Richard Baxter and John Milton could afford to write because they didn't need to earn a living. But ...

JOURNEY INTO SELF (301 pp.)—M. Esther Harding—Longmans, Green ($5). John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is a great Protestant allegory. It is also an allegory of Everyman, and many men have tried to ...

Bungling villagers volunteered to tidy up an ancient tree where 'Pilgrim's Progress' author John Bunyan preached 400 years ago - and accidentally burnt it down. The 10 volunteers turned up with a ...