BOOKS

If it wasn’t for John Kennedy Toole’s mom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel would likely have been lost to time.

Author John Irving’s book about a boy with a “wrecked voice” who believes he’s an instrument of God is a staple on high school summer reading lists. Here are a few things you might not have known about it.

You’ll be glad these ladies aren’t your mother.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel was a flop—until it was deployed overseas.

Wear your best gown to the Pride & Prejudice 20th Anniversary Ball in Pasadena.

For some people, video games were a pleasant way to pass the time in the 1990s. For others, they were a cultural crisis.

From what he originally called the fix-up sci-fi collection to the words he invented in its stories, here’s what you need to know about Asimov’s ‘I, Robot,’ which turns 75 this year.

This St. Patrick’s Day, revisit literary classics by Irish authors like James Joyce and Roddy Doyle, plus discover a few new writers along the way with this roundup.

The author, who was born 100 years ago on March 25, was really into mayonnaise—and peacocks.

‘The Gashlycrumb Tinies’ author was born 100 years ago on February 22—here’s what you need to know about him, from what classic book he found boring to how much he really helped with PBS’s show ‘Mystery!’

The star-crossed lovers captured in these Gothic romance books will give you a new reason to hate Valentine’s Day.

He wrote the book partially in response to European writers like Joseph Conrad, who Achebe said depicted Africa “as ‘the other world,’ the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization.”