WRITING

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

Writers often turn to a thesaurus to diversify their vocabulary and add nuance to their prose. But looking up synonyms and antonyms in a thesaurus can help anyone—writer or not—find the most vivid, incisive words to communicate thoughts and ideas.

And he helped local writers at the same time.

“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

Think a post-job interview thank you note has gone the way of calling cards and phone books? Think again.

They write for the parents, too.

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.