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David A. Noebel is an evangelical Christian leader and the founder of Summit Ministries. In the mid 1960s Noebel wrote several pamphlets...

Starting out his life in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, Tagore was a polymath, poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright,...

As he lay dying on this day, the great French writer Voltaire noticed that the lamp next to his bed was violently flickering and flaring...

Many of us will have walked passed the spot on which this old farmhouse stood and not even realised it. In the second half of the 18th...

April 26, 1895 — The first criminal trial of Oscar Wilde began on this day as the downfall of the celebrated playwright, accused of gross...

Legendary British sketch comic and writer Spike Milligan celebrates his birthday today. Or, he would, if he weren’t dead. Death was a...

When asking a celebrity for a special favour, it helps to be a bit of a celebrity yourself. As Keith Ferrell details in his biography,...

In William Faulkner’s 1938 novel The Unvanquished, the implacable Colonel Sartoris takes drastic action to stop the election of a black...

My dear Gauguin, Thanks for your letter, and thanks most of all for your promise to come as early as the twentieth. Agreed, this reason...

Legend has it that Kerouac wrote On the Road in three weeks, typing it almost nonstop on a 120-foot roll of paper. The truth is that the...

Victor Hugo wrote poetry, novels, and drama—more than enough for any mortal—but he also made some four thousand drawings over the course...

February 17, 1904 Madama Butterfly had its premiere at La Scala in Milan—“a date that marks one of the worst fiascos in the history of...

Even the smartest people who ever lived, have days when they feel dumb — really, really dumb. Oct. 1, 1861, was that kind of day for...

In 1805, when he became a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, the college authorities told Lord Byron that pet dogs were banned. He...

This is timely insight from a 1959 interview with the philosopher Bertrand Russell about what he would say to a distant future generation...

The day before Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, he gave his final speech, known as ‘I’ve...

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...