From the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of course: There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most...

In 1820, a whale rammed into an American whale-hunting ship in the South Pacific. It was the first time in American history that a...

The Mabinogion is based upon a 14th century manuscript known as ‘Red book of Hergest’. The work is a collection of eleven tales of early...

We’ve all seen them, joke t-shirts that state the gist of various world religions or philosophies by reference to the aforementioned...

If you could name a writing group what better name than 'The Inklings'? That's what an informal group of writers that included C.S. Lewis...

In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote his famous Letter to the Future and addressed it to Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088. In it, Vonnegut...

After being rejected by their male literary peers, women writers of New York City joined forces to create their own club called Sorosis —...

Harper Lee wasn’t Capote’s first choice to help with his writing. He’d wanted to bring along his friend Andrew Lyndon, another young...

Creating a good headline for an article is an art within itself. Just think about it: you basically have to describe your whole text...

Agatha Christie is one of history’s foremost crime novelists. But perhaps the author’s most intriguing mystery might just be the case of...

One of those great masters of literature Tagore's work left no human emotion untouched. The poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and...

1. He was the original ‘airy-fairy’ poet. The phrase ‘airy-fairy’ – now used as a derogatory term for something light and insubstantial –...

Born in New York City to a wealthy and socially connected family, Herman Melville (1819-1891) chose a life as exciting as that of his...

How Henri Charrière escaped from one of history's most infamous prisons and then won his freedom from the government that he claimed had...

Brave New World novelist Aldous Huxley was diagnosed with cancer in 1960, at which point his health slowly began to deteriorate. On his...

His gloomy, haunted visage adorns the covers of collected works, publications of whose like he would never see in his lifetime. Edgar...

The English alphabet has a fascinating history, and the development of each letter of the alphabet has its own story. Although English is...

It’s a great shame that Roald Dahl never actually wrote any full-length Christmas stories. The subject is the perfect territory for him....

The common consensus is that writers hate editing, but that’s not always the case. Truman Capote once said, “I’m all for the scissors. I...

The mind of Kurt Vonnegut, like the protagonist of his best-known novel Slaughterhouse-Five, must have got "unstuck in time" somewhere...

On October 15th of 1944, with support from Nazi Germany, the far-right Arrow Cross Party took control of Hungary and immediately began to...

December abounds with holidays and reasons to celebrate. There's St. Nicholas Day, the Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Lucia Day,...

His gloomy, haunted visage adorns the covers of collected works, publications of whose like he would never see in his lifetime. Edgar...

Walt Disney was a big fan of live-action reference and nearly the entire movie would be filmed before being used to guide the artists...