T.S. Eliot is best known for writing "The Waste Land," but the Nobel Prize winner was also a prankster who coined a perennially popular curse word and created the characters brought to life in the Broadway musical "Cats."

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The retreat is located on Pelee Island in Lake Erie, where Atwood is a longtime seasonal resident.
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
Happy birthday to poet Ogden Nash, known for his ability to turn a witty verse on everything from politics to celery.
Anita Thompson returned the trophy on his behalf.
In 1858, the poet published a 13-column guide to manly health under a pseudonym.
Save your notes on your tablet or phone without taking a million pictures of your notebook.
If you’re struggling to fine tune your writing or reduce that cover letter to a single page, there’s a web app that can help.
From carefully-counting beans to drinking gallons each day, these famous coffee drinkers are on a must-have basis with java.
The prolific mystery writer took an active part in her husband’s archaeology digs.
The inventor of Magnetic Poetry was thrust into his life's work by one well-timed sneeze.
Happy National Novel Writing Month!
The author who terrified (and enthralled) you as kid spills on writing, the state of horror, and his history with humor.