Literature Authors | Great American Novel

Although there is much speculation about the information on William Shakespeare’s personal life, the best available sources state that he was…

Novelists, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, essayists, and philosophers—whether famous or anonymous, many of Western culture s greatest…

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS by Marisha PesslThis stylish debut novel from Marisha Pessl might scare you away at first glance. The table…

Is writing an internationally acclaimed, bestseller novel in a foreign language a mark of fluency? Following on from my recent post, I thought…

Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and intellectual of worldwide renown who imbued his work with humor and scholarship and whose novel “The Name…

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We’re living in a golden age of young-adult literature, when books ostensibly written for teens are equally adored by readers of every generation…

Latin-American literature, in spite of its prolificacy and influence, sadly enjoys less academic recognition than its European-American counterparts…

Wright wrote his first story at the age of fifteen named ‘The Voodoo of Hell’s Half-Acre’ which was publishes in a local black newspaper. After…

An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra…

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The American short story writer O. Henry (1862 - 1910) was born under the name William Sydney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1862. His…

A quick note: the following 10 novels will not appear on this list. It’s not your list. You might think these are great. I think they are overrated…

A lot can happen in 200 years, as you ll see on our lesson that introduces you to British literature of the 17th and 18th centuries. Go from…

Chicano literature is the literature written by Mexican Americans in the United States. Although its origins can be traced back to the sixteenth…