BOOKS

How Crichton turned ‘Jurassic Park’ from a manuscript everyone hated into a best-selling book that spawned a multi-billion dollar movie franchise. Plus: 10 key differences between the novel and the film.

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.

Sci-fi author Asimov feared embarrassment might come out of one project, so he decided to create an alter ego.

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.

When Captain George Pollard Jr.’s ship was rammed by a whale, he had no idea it would help make literary history.

‘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.”