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Fun Facts Friday: Edmund Morris

Edmund Morris (27 May 1940 – 24 May 2019) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, known for his biographies of…

2 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: James Jones

James Jones (6 November, 1921 – 9 May, 1977)was an American author, mostly known for his award winning novel From…

3 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Robert Stone

Robert Stone (21 August, 1937 – 10 January, 2015) was an award winning American novelist known for his novel Dog…

4 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb (8 August, 1922 – 30 December, 2019) was an author and historian, focusing on Great Britain.

4 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: John Crowe Ransom

As a faculty member at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio he founded the Kenyon Review and was its editor until…

4 years ago

Guest Book Review: My Education by Susan Choi

This stylish, steamy campus novel dissects a passionate affair between a brainy ingenue and her professor’s magnetic, intellectual, incandescent wife.

4 years ago

Book Review: Edison by Edmund Morris

Edison by Edmund Morris is a very unique as far as biographies go, one in the way telling of the…

4 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Frederic Morton

Frederic Morton (5 October, 1924 – 20 April, 2015) was an award winning American writer who was born as Fritz…

6 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (7 June, 1917 – 3 December, 2000) was an award winning American poet. Ms. Brooks would have been…

11 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Stephen Jay Gould

Award winning author Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002). A scholar as well as an author,…

13 years ago

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