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10 Famous Writers’ Houses Worth Visiting

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10 Famous Writers’ Houses Worth Visiting

10 Things You Might Not Know About Alice Walker

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Alice Walker

7 Epic Facts About The Canterbury Tales

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7 Epic Facts About The Canterbury Tales

See What the World’s Reading Habits Look Like in 2020

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See What the World’s Reading Habits Look Like in 2020

12 Notable English Language Mistakes

She wrote "sneak peak" instead of "sneak peek."

7 Facts About Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O'Connor with writer and editor Robie Macauley.

5 Fascinating Facts About James Baldwin

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10 Fascinating Facts About Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac reading poetry.

How Lolita Author Vladimir Nabokov Helped Ruth Bader Ginsburg Find Her Voice

Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016.

Remembering Rebecca: 11 Facts About Daphne du Maurier's Enduring Novel

Lily James as Mrs de Winter and Armie Hammer as Maxim de Winter in Rebecca (2020).

China Is Now Home to What May Be the World’s Most Stunning Bookstore

The best place to get lost.

The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Museum in Illinois Might Shut Down Forever—Here’s How to Help Save It

A baby Hemingway tottered through the halls of this idyllic edifice.

11 Women Horror Writers You Need to Read

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8 Frightening Facts about Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw

John La Farge's title illustration for The Turn of the Screw in Collier's Weekly, 1898.

12 Surprising Facts About T.S. Eliot

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11 Popular Quotes Commonly Misattributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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