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The 'A Wrinkle in Time' author, who would have turned 100 years old today, saw her most famous work get rejected 26 times.

A series of dime store turtles eventually led him to The Iron Throne.

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

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By Napoleon Sarony - Library of Congress, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Oscar Wilde, who was famous for his wit, once advised: "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

At first glance, a dictionary seems pretty straightforward: Words are listed alphabetically, and you simply locate the right page and scan until you find the word you’re looking for. But there’s a lot you might not know about these essential reference too

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.

Celebrate Banned Books Week by giving these once-censored classics a read.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a fan of the exclamation point!

“Cut out all these exclamation points," F. Scott Fizgerald once said. "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

If you really want to be remembered, it's best to die on a Friday.

She tested most of the slapstick herself.

Even seasoned professors may have trouble spotting this trick.

A world without Roald Dahl would be a world without Oompa Loompas, Snozzcumbers, or Muggle-Wumps. And who would ever want to live in a world like that?

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University [1], Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

"I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter." —D.H. Lawrence

This is the face of a child who doesn't like what she's reading.

Writers used to instill good manners through strange, scary cautionary tales—and some stories were so bizarre it's a wonder the kids that read them turned out OK.