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Famous Authors Who Hated Each Other’s Writing

Kurt Vonnegut, ca. 1972. Photograph by PBS This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words on the p...

Charles Dickens writes with a quill at his desk in 1858. He wrote everything by hand, from 9am to 2pm every day. Writing inspiration.

In a celebration of the brilliant female authors of the past, we’ve collated a list of our top ten classic feminist novels.

Your kids have probably heard of Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Robert Frost, John Keats, and other famous authors, but do they know what they wrote? Do they know when and where they lived and died? This FREE Famous Authors Notebooking Journal can help them investigate these questions and more. This FREE Famous Authors Notebooking...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." We all know famous lines like these, but can you identify the classic novels they come from? The post Can You Identify These 15 Opening Lines from 15 Famous Authors? appeared first on Reader's Digest.

From Whitman to Hawthorne, read a list of books iconic literary critic Harold Bloom considered integral to the 'American Sublime.'

Whether studying or lecturing, each of these authors have spent time at the oldest university in the UK. Which famous authors went to Oxford?

The Queen of Crime was really into surfing... who knew?