LITERATURE

Shirley Jackson, the famed author of 'The Lottery' and 'The Haunting of Hill House,' claimed to be a witch.

The Nobel Prize-winning poet, who escaped the Holocaust, is the subject of today's Google Doodle.

"I seemed to have him kidnapped and killed for no good reason."

Hester Pulter broke convention—and the expectations of her gender and class—by writing about science and politics.

She's the richest author on the planet.

Make time to read one of the most disturbing short stories of all time this Halloween.

Sylvia Plath's novel 'The Bell Jar' wasn't published under her real name—or in the United States—until years after her death.

Roughly 4 million readers cast their votes.

Richard Beale's sketch of a chicken wearing trousers has gone viral.

You would never know from his books that Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine used to write joke books for kids under the name Jovial Bob Stine

Each year, hundreds of formal challenges asking for the removal of “inappropriate” books from shelves and syllabi are filed with schools and libraries across the country.

The Holy Bible is regularly challenged for having a "religious viewpoint."