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In her stunning 2017 debut Her Body and Other Parties – a dreamlike collection of cryptic fairytales, blending beautiful prose…

Born in 1920s Harlem, James Baldwin broke literary ground with his candid exploration of racial, sexual and social issues in…

The multi-hyphenate Miranda July has been weaving together film, fiction, monologue, mixed media, and live performance art since her ’90s…

Best known for his legendary roles in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, Gene Wilder‘s twinkly-eyed…

Political leader, voting rights activist and bestselling author Stacy Abrams made history in 2018 as the first Black woman to…

With the 1985 release of his Hugo and Nebula award-winning epic Ender’s Game, sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card cemented himself…

Sci-fi and fantasy queen N.K. Jemisin made history when she became the first author to win the prestigious Hugo Award…

Back in 2004, Ken Jennings was an anonymous software engineer in Salt Lake City when he got the fateful call…

Through celebrated novels, essays, and short stories, Min Jin Lee‘s writing has shed some much-needed light on the Korean immigrant…

Jam-packed with themes of cryptography, conspiracy, and art history, Dan Brown’s wildly popular thrillers have been translated into 57 languages…