Tolstoy, Austen and Dickens. The legends of literature like F. Scott Fitzgerald, who could convey stories with immaculate detail and clarity, seem to have been forgotten in the 21st century. In the ...

Part of what makes former first lady Laura Bush's open, deeply felt and engrossing memoir, "Spoken From the Heart," genuinely memorable is its portrait of her marriage to George W. Bush. Whatever one ...

You've likely heard by now that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. And it was not an uncontroversial decision. I'll admit to having reservations. I'm an English professor by ...

Above : Kurt Vonnegut Jr. before his 2004 Get Lit! appearance. Note the cigarette. Since its inception in 1998, Get Lit! — Spokane’s annual literary festival, founded and annually hosted primarily by ...

A British mathematician and the author of “Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature.” “Call me Ishmael.” This has to be one of the most famous opening sentences ...

The poet Lucille Clifton, one of the most distinct voices of the past forty years, and the former Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1979-1985), died on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Baltimore.

THE beneficent influence exerted by Horace E. Scudder upon American life and literature during a period of more than thirty years would have been impossible without the possession of rare gifts, and ...

TONI MORRISON: We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. CORNISH: Morrison, a literary giant, died yesterday at the age of 88. She wrote the ...