The “Peanuts” franchise has outlived both cartoonist Charles Schulz and the red-haired woman who inspired Charlie Brown’s famous love interest. Dan Steinberg Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP In the ...

The famous cartoonist, who died at 77 on Feb. 12, 2000, drew 17,890 "Peanuts" strips over 50 years and once asked a red-haired woman to marry him but she turned him down, Huntsinger said.

The eponymous red-haired woman of Turkish Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk’s new novel is no different. An actress in an itinerant theater troupe, she throws lightning through this story and ...