Posted on 07/03/2022 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of July 3, 2021. Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804): Hawthorne’s...
Posted on 06/27/2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
This past weekend — Saturday, June 25, to be exact — marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the release of Anne...
Posted on 06/26/2022 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of June 26, 2022. Pearl S. Buck (June 26, 1892):...
Posted on 06/19/2022 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of June 19, 2022. Salman Rushdie (June 19, 1947): Rushdie...
Posted on 06/16/2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
While June 16, 1818, has long been held as the day that Mary Shelley sat down (or, rather, sat up)...
Posted on 06/12/2022 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here are the literary birthdays to celebrate over the week of June 12, 2022. Anne Frank (June 12, 1929): Frank...
Posted on 06/09/2022 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Young-adult literature has suffered a big loss. The New York Times reports that author Jim Murphy has died at the...
Posted on 06/09/2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Passages from an award-nominated novel have been found to be similar to — and sometimes identical — text from a...
Posted on 06/09/2022 at 07:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Writer Charles Dickens died on this day in 1870. So here's a fact about the author of such classics as...
Posted on 06/08/2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Two reviews of new nonfiction work caught our eye this morning. NPR reviewed The Facemaker, by Lindsey Fitzharris, and the...
