Horatio Alger's repetitive stories reached their true popularity and became synonymous with social mobility largely thanks to ...

Actress Jane Kaczmarek hosts this comprehensive history of American fiction from 1650 to the present day which includes profiles of some of the countrys greatest authors Illuminating the lives of ...

Thus Poet Archibald MacLeish recalls one of the great American writers in his days of early glory, back in the 1920s, when it always seemed to be April in Paris. Last week Ernest Hemingway was a ...

During a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone, The Eagles’ Don Henley discussed the literature that helped inspire “Take It Easy.” “Great American writers from Thomas Wolfe to Jack Kerouac to ...

One of the great American authors, Philip Roth, has died aged 85. The Pulitzer, National Book Award and Man Booker International Prize-winning novelist's work drew its inspiration from Jewish ...

Since America’s founding, the diversity of American writers has shaped its literature ... As a distinguished Senior Military College, with a legacy spanning over 150 years, we take great pride in our ...

to try to forge a work of great literature, an actual Great American Novel out of fantasy’s tropes and impulses and materials. As the novelist and critic Aaron Gwyn noted recently in a social ...

One of the great American writers of the 19th century never fully believed in his profession. For Nathaniel Hawthorne, writing was "a source of shame as much as pleasure and a necessity he could ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with ... told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated writers’ fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected ...