A to Z Writers

Edith Wharton was a New Yorker, a fact that was very evident in her novels. The sense of place is pervasive, as is the feeling of impending doom....

The passing of Elie Wiesel struck me cold. Yes, we've read his works. Yes, we've written about him. Then, too, like me, you've probably pondered the cold realities...

James Joyce's Ulysses is a giant of 20th-century literature. It's both a celebrated masterpiece and a complex, notorious novel. What makes this complex work so significant? Why does...

Like me, you may have first discovered Willa Cather through My Antonia. Perhaps you learned to love her style and prose, the dark irony, and the sense of...

Harper Lee was one of the most famous writers of her time--known for To Kill a Mockingbird, a controversial novel about race relations in America. She also published...

On this day, as we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr., our minds inevitably drift to his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. Those powerful words, etched into the...

Have you ever wondered why a novel written over 60 years ago still resonates so powerfully today? Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning To Kill a Mockingbird captivates readers. It...

Few names shine as brightly as Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His words can transport us to worlds where the impossible is possible. There, reality bends and twists like an...

Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway, invites us into the mind of an "ordinary" woman on an ordinary day. It reveals the extraordinary depths of human experience. This 1925...

Have you ever picked up a book that seemed to speak directly to your soul? For many of us, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams is just such...