Muriel Spark is considered one of Britain’s great postwar Catholic literary figures, alongside Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene ...

“The unexamined life is not worth living,” Socrates insisted, according to his disciple Plato. Biographers extend this idea by examining the lives of extraordinary men and women. Among the finest ...

Margaret C. Anderson was at the center of a notorious literary-obscenity trial. Then she was forgotten.

The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural talent ...

In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously researched biography of James Baldwin, the great writer’s search for the source of his art dovetails with his lifelong search for meaningful relationships.

The complex life of Mark Twain, a writer dubbed “the Father of American Literature”, is told expertly in Pulitzer winner Ron Chernow’s comprehensive 1,100-word biography Mark Twain (Allen Lane). In ...

Franz Kafka was born to middle-class Jewish parents on July 3, 1883, in Prague, then the capital of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), and died in a tuberculosis sanatorium near Vienna on June 3, 1924, ...