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Best known for penning the wildly popular Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, American author Rick Riordan has written over…

At 35, Anita Hill was thrust into the national spotlight when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her…

“Literature should be sensual and endlessly sensory,” says Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James. “I like books that make me…

Across a prolific body of both fiction and non-fiction work, English writer Matt Haig delves into the darker sides of…

A populist bellwether and progressive icon, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has become one of America’s leading liberal voices in her…

Cheryl Strayed is the bestselling author behind the novel Torch, and nonfiction books Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough. She…

A titan of American YA fiction, John Green burst onto the teen lit scene with his bestselling debut Looking for…

Born to a Jewish immigrant family in 1920s Brooklyn, Howard Zinn was a visionary historian, philosopher, and political activist who…

When William S. Burroughs befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac while living in 1940s NYC, the three’s mutual influence would…

Multihyphenate mega-talent Michaela Coel first came to fame in 2015, when she adapted her one-woman show into the darkly comic…