Writers
The Story of Muckraker Upton Sinclair’s Dramatic Campaign for Governor of California
Sinclair was as famous in his day as any movie-star candidate who came later
The Jane Austen £10 Note Extends the "Ladylike" History of British Money
The beloved novelist is the latest icon in the Bank of England's long—and fraught—tradition of gendering finance
The Author of ‘Frankenstein’ Also Wrote a Post-Apocalyptic Plague Novel
‘The Last Man’ was derided in its time for being too grim, but today it would fit in with a growing genre of dystopian fiction
How Mary Hemingway and JFK Got Ernest Hemingway’s Legacy Out of Cuba
1961, the year Hemingway died, was a complicated year for U.S.-Cuba relations
Georgia College Gifted Farm Where Flannery O'Connor Composed Southern Gothic
The author's alma mater will take over and maintain the Savannah-born author's final home
The German Language Adds 5,000 New Words
The latest edition of the Duden dictionary includes <i>tindern,</i> or online dating, and <i>postfaktisch</i>, meaning post-truth
Lost Play By J.M. Barrie Discovered in Texas Archive
The newly published <i>Reconstruction of the Crime</i> features comedic detective exploits and audience participation
Museum Offers $15,000 Per Character to Decipher Oracle Bone Script
The inscriptions offer detailed information about the Shang Dynasty, but researchers need help to read them
The Bowdlers Wanted to Clean Up Shakespeare, Not Become a Byword for Censorship
Thomas and Henrietta Bowdler started out with relatively noble intentions
History Was Writ Large on This Desk Belonging to Thomas Jefferson
The ingenuity of this clever writing box was matched only by the young republic's innovative declaration for nationhood
The Whimsical, Chameleon-Like Figure Behind the Myth of Sylvia Plath
Today, visions of a life marked by mental illness endure, but the author had a light side—and a knack for savvy image control
Happy Bloomsday! Too Bad James Joyce Would Have Hated This
Joyce infamously disliked the idea of being memorialized
The Spy Who Became England’s First Successful Female Writer
Aphra Behn made a name for herself in Restoration-era England, when most women still relied on their husbands
Anthony Burgess' Legendary Dictionary of Slang Lives
The author and linguist gave up the book after realizing how enormous the task of keeping up with slang would be
Snoop Inside Thoreau's Journals at This New Exhibition
It's your chance to get up-close and personal with the philosopher-poet’s possessions
Scholars Rediscover Forgotten Edith Wharton Play
“The Shadow of a Doubt” had been overshadowed by over 100 years of history
Samuel Pepys Was England's First Blogger
The famed blogger—okay, diarist—told historians so much about 17th-century daily life in England, but he could have told us so much more
Edith Wharton Recruited the World’s Greatest Artists to Raise Money for WWI Refugees
A century ago, the famous author took it upon herself to help those left behind by the war’s carnage
Battle the Bard in Shakespeare Remix Competition
$25,000 is on the line—along with some serious bragging rights
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