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Back in 1999, Ellen DeGeneres appeared on Oprah to discuss her life following the cancellation of her weekly sitcom Ellen. The comedian, actress and…

Reflecting on her life as a “pathological reader” in 2014, award-winning author Zadie Smith wrote: “I don’t really get the appeal of…

Bill Gates, the business magnate, author and philanthropist best known for co-founding Microsoft, makes a habit of sharing reading lists over…

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Paulo Coelho, the Brazilian lyricist and author best known for penning 1988’s international bestseller The Alchemist, lived a storied life…

Author, academic and counterculture activist Angela Davis has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of the disenfranchised since the ’60s.…

“Nietzsche killed Jim Morrison,” John Densmore, drummer of the Doors, wrote in his 1990 autobiography Riders on the Storm. Before…

The son of two schoolteachers, junkyard poet and piano man Tom Waits has been a voracious reader all his life. In the 2009 biography Lowside…

From a young age, rock poet and troubadour Leonard Cohen knew he wanted to be a writer. In fact, it wasn’t…

Back in 2012, a 14-year-old fan tweeted singer, songwriter and angel spirit Florence Welch proposing she start a book club. Welch…