Famous Authors

One kind of negative book review is exceptionally painful – the one made by another author. Claire Fallon from Huffington Post has…

"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.

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...

From California's Joan Didion to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.

Some words of wisdom from the greats! I came across this the other day, when considering what it means to read, to write, to edit, and to review, and just had to share. Lauren and I have been enth…

How we see the author in our mind is usually based on how she or he looked in the times of the biggest fame. See also: [ef-archive number=2 tag=”lists” ] One picture can say a lot about…

Here at the Literary Hub office, pretty much every day is Take Your Dog to Work Day. Or so we hope and dream. Sometimes, when we’re lucky, we do have a dog in the office: our current Editoria…

There are countless books that purport to teach you how to write. Many of them are good. Some of them are not quite as good. This is the usual way of things. However, I am always most excited to co…

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

Genius, captured on camera.