WRITING

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

Though he made his living as a writer, Ernest Hemingway was just as famous for his lust for adventure.

The screenplay is complete enough that it could be created by filmmakers today.

Believe it or not, we're all probably mispronouncing 'Walden' author Henry David Thoreau's name.