Frank Baum, the Man Behind the Curtain
The author of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, traveled many paths before he found his Yellow Brick Road
June 26, 2009 |
By Chloë Schama
Forget Edgar Allan Poe? Nevermore!
Cities up and down the East Coast claim author Edgar Allan Poe as their own and and celebrate his 200th birthday
June 11, 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Eudora Welty as Photographer
Photographs by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Eudora Welty display the empathy that would later infuse her fiction
April 2009 |
By T.A. Frail
A Jazzed-Up Langston Hughes
A long-forgotten poem about the African-American experience is given new life in a multimedia performance
March 13, 2009 |
By Laban Carrick Hill
Literary Landmarks: A History of American Women Writers
Author Elaine Showalter discusses the lasting influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe and why Gertrude Stein is overrated
March 06, 2009 |
By Chloë Schama
N. Scott Momaday and the Buffalo Trust
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Kiowa Indian N. Scott Momaday runs a nonprofit organization working to preserve Native cultures
January 2009 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Southern Comfort
Celebrated poet Mark Doty succumbs to Houston's humid charms
October 2008 |
By Mark Doty
In Seattle, a Northwest Passage
He arrived unsure of what to expect—but the prolific author quickly embraced Seattle's energizing diversity
September 2008 |
By Charles Johnson
You got a problem with that?
Why do New Yorkers seem rude? A noted critic and essayist has a few ideas
May 2008 |
By Joan Acocella
Urbane Renewal
Claire Messud, the best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, discovers the grown-up pleasures of her adolescent playground
April 2008 |
By Claire Messud
Sound and Fury
Norman Mailer's anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output
January 2008 |
By Lance Morrow
At Home. For Now
The acclaimed novelist probes our yearning for a fixed address
December 2007 |
By Richard Ford
Wild Woman
Playwright Sarah Ruhl speaks softly and carries a big kick
October 2007 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
Comedienne of Manners
Novelist ZZ Packer uses humor to point up some disconcerting signposts along America's racial divide
October 2007 |
By Tessa Decarlo
Have Roots, Will Travel
Like the four generations of Angelenos who preceded her, the best-selling author likes to get around
October 2007 |
By Lisa See
Teaming up with Thoreau
One hundred fifty years after the publication of Walden, Henry David Thoreau is helping scientists monitor global warming
October 2007 |
By Michelle Nijhuis
Remembering Jack Kerouac
A friend of the author of "On the Road," published 50 years ago this month, tells why the novel still matters
September 2007 |
By Joyce Johnson
Hemingway's Cuba, Cuba's Hemingway
His last personal secretary returns to Havana and discovers that the novelist's mythic presence looms larger than ever
August 2007 |
By Valerie Hemingway
Horse Appeal
In this interview, Steve Twomey, author of "Barbaro's Legacy," discusses how interest in the horse extends outside the racetrack
April 01, 2007 |
By Amy Crawford
Frost Bite
A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost has brought fame—and controversy—to an English student
March 01, 2007 |
By W. Andrew Ewell
