WRITING

Even handwriting scholars can't read all scripts.

For decades, linguists have been able to use the quirks of written texts to pinpoint the author. The process, called stylometric analysis or stylometry, has dozens of legal and academic applications.

You can quote 'The Raven.' But how well do you know Edgar Allan Poe's quirky sense of humor and code-cracking abilities?

There are various interpretations of the relationship at the center of the Shel Silverstein classic—not all of them positive.

The author is talking about the books, which may or may not end the same way as the HBO series.

“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

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.

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