The Renaissance noblewoman is little known today, but in her time she was a notorious celebrity. Read more
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Category: Authors
Late author Haley honored by Annapolis on 100th birthday
Remembering his 100th birthday, Maryland’s capital city gave honors this weekend to the late author Alex Haley and his extended family, citing his research that led to a greater understanding by all Americans about slavery’s legacy. Read more
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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: campaigners push to revive fame of working-class novelist
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth wrote in 1914 that “literature up till now has been lopsided, dealing with life only from the standpoint of one class”. Now the Lancashire mill worker and author, a forgotten name who is believed to be the first working-class woman in Britain to publish a novel, and who in her heyday outsold HG Wells, is set to be celebrated with an alternative blue plaque and a return to print. Read more
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Hemingway ‘wannabes’ celebrate author with lookalike contest
Fans in Nobel prizewinner’s favourite haunt of Key West hold their 40th competition on his birthday. Read more
Poet Sylvia Plath’s Wedding Band And Other Prized Possessions Net $1 Million At Auction
Seemingly mundane items fetched large sums Wednesday, like a set of family recipes and a rolling pin, two serving trays and a drinking cup that sold for a collective $43,130. Read more
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Biden nominates surgeon, author Atul Gawande to senior job at USAID
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated writer, surgeon and public health expert Atul Gawande to lead global health development at the U.S. Agency for International Development, including for COVID-19, the White House said. Read more
Ishmael Reed Gets the Last Laugh
His brilliantly idiosyncratic fiction has travestied everyone from Moses to Lin-Manuel Miranda, and laid a foundation for the freewheeling genre experiments of writers such as Paul Beatty, Victor LaValle, and Colson Whitehead. Yet there’s always been more to Reed than subversion and caricature. Laughter, in his books, unearths legacies suppressed by prejudice, élitism, and mass-media coöptation. Read more
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Stephen King Gets into the Podcast Game With a Series Based on ‘Night Shift’
King has partnered with Audio Up Media, iHeart Media, and producer Lee Metzger (The Voice) to create Strawberry Spring, a new show based on a tale from his 1978 short story collection Night Shift. Read more
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Iranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say
An Iranian American journalist living in Brooklyn who has been a sharp critic of the Iranian government was the target of an international kidnapping plot orchestrated by an intelligence network in Iran, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Read more
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A reading guide to legendary Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez
Like many writers, García Márquez began in newspapers. Aficionados and newbies alike should consider “The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings,” a wide-ranging collection illuminating the real-life political concerns and characters that shape his celebrated fiction. Read more
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