Neil Simon, King of Comedy Playwrights, Dies at 91
Neil Simon, one of the rare late-20th century playwrights who was a brand name for plays such as “The Odd Couple” and “Barefoot in the [Read More]
Famous Authors
Bill Clinton, James Patterson Team Up in New Thriller Novel
In what is going to mark the debut of former US President Bill Clinton as a fiction writer, he has teamed up with James Patterson [Read More]
How Millionaire Author Mary Higgins Clark Spent Her First Big Paycheck
Mary Higgins Clark is known as the “queen of suspense.” At 90, she’s written 37 best-selling suspense novels and sold over 100 million copies of [Read More]
Whatever Happened to the Book Herman Melville Wrote After ‘Moby-Dick’?
Book publishing—like many commercial industries—is inherently a gamble. You can pick your favorite spec manuscripts, think the author behind it is brilliant, spend gobs of [Read More]
Trove of author Ray Bradbury’s papers set for preservation
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ray Bradbury won over generations of readers to science fiction with “Fahrenheit 451” and other works during a writing career that spanned [Read More]
Harper Lee’s Will, Unsealed, Only Adds More Mystery to Her Life
When the novelist Harper Lee died in her sleep two years ago, at 89, she left a trail of lingering questions about her life and [Read More]
14 Stephen King quotes about writing you totally need to hang on your wall
The first Stephen King book I ever read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I was still in my teens, and my gran — [Read More]
Judy Blume’s Advice for Aspiring Writers
Judy Blume needs no introduction. The author of your all-time favorite childhood novels (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Tales of a Fourth Grade [Read More]
Sebastian Barry named Irish fiction laureate, hailing ‘golden age of Irish prose’
Award-winning novelist succeeds Anne Enright in three-year role promoting Irish literature and its formidable generations of writers The award-winning author Sebastian Barry has vowed to [Read More]
Embracing your complicated family and four other lessons on fiction writing from Amy Tan
One of the first things you notice about Amy Tan is the razor-sharp precision with which she talks. The American writer doesn’t use a word [Read More]
J.K. Rowling tells us all what her secret to writing is
Knowing full well that I run the risk of sounding like a cliché, J.K. Rowling’s life story is the stuff of magic. Before the first [Read More]
George Saunders: what writers really do when they write
A series of instincts, thousands of tiny adjustments, hundreds of drafts … What is the mysterious process writers go through to get an idea on [Read More]
George RR Martin funds scholarship for budding ‘worldbuilders’
Game of Thrones author will sponsor place at Clarion West Writers Workshop to ‘help the next great fantasist on the long journey ahead’ Citing his [Read More]
Young Emmanuel Macron wrote racy novel inspired by wife, claims new book
The French president’s early literary attempt inspired by romance with his teacher, later to become his wife, a new Brigitte Macron biography claims A new [Read More]