And how did they get that name?

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Hogwarts letter got lost in the mail? Don't worry: You can still experience Halloween the Harry Potter way by visiting one of these events.
An American hasn’t won the world’s most prestigious writing prize since 1993.
How perfectly British.
Fairy tales often have their fair share of macabre scenes and plot points that get sanitized when adapted for stage and screen.
A retired Civil War general's assertions about the color blue led to what was known as the "Blue-glass craze."
T.S. Eliot is best known for writing "The Waste Land," but the Nobel Prize winner was also a prankster who coined a perennially popular curse word and created the characters brought to life in the Broadway musical "Cats."
This tiny Scottish town is every bibliophile's dream.
Let this list serve as a fall book club guide.
The Metropolitan Museum has already expressed interest.
When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440, he couldn’t have foreseen how his humble creation would eventually lead to a global industry churning out millions of books each year.
On November 1, 1755, an earthquake released the energy equivalent of 32,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs, with Lisbon suffering the worst of it. Then the tsunami hit...
Print isn't dead—far from it.