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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
Words to Remember
Amanda McKittrick Ros predicted she would achieve lasting fame as a novelist. Unfortunately, she did
June 2009 |
By Miles Corwin
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
Voices from Literature’s Past
The British Library’s Spoken Word albums of recordings by British and American writers shed new light on the authors' work
March 20, 2009 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
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
Sarah Vowell on the Puritans' Legacy
The author and 'This American Life' correspondent talks about her book on the colonies' early religious leaders
November 04, 2008 |
By Amanda Bensen
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
Adventures of a Portuguese Poet
Wild-hearted Luis Vaz de Camoes’ years abroad are not well-known, but that hasn’t lessened his legend
September 01, 2008 |
By Amanda Bensen
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
