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How Sarah Josepha Hale Became the 'Mother of Thanksgiving'

A painting of Sarah Josepha Hale by James Reid Lambdin, circa 1831.

How Sarah Josepha Hale Became the 'Mother of Thanksgiving'

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

10 Fascinating Facts About Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac reading poetry.

10 Fascinating Facts About Jack Kerouac

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).

12 Surprising Facts About Dictionaries

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The Reason It's So Hard to Spot Your Own Typos

We have a difficult time catching our own typing mistakes.

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.

6 Punctuation Marks Hated by Famous Authors

F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a fan of the exclamation mark.

12 Surprising Facts About T.S. Eliot

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11 Popular Quotes Commonly Misattributed to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using

Damon Amato

Read Roald Dahl’s Heartbreaking 1986 Letter About the Importance of Vaccinations

Roald Dahl photographed in 1954.