(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include […]

Louisa May Alcott was a daughter of noted Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail May Alcott. Louisa’s father started the Temple School; her uncle, Samuel Joseph May, was a noted abolitionist. Though of New England parentage and residence, she was born in Germantown, which is currently part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She had three sisters: one […]

Ernest J. Gaines (b. January 15, 1933), a prominent African-American fiction writer, is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Gaines’s fiction has received critical acclaim. His works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese. Four of his works have been produced […]

A chat with a children’s book author who describes his work as a playfully picturesque romp through the secret life of food.
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Talking with first-time author, Marcus Dino, whose novel intertwines the life of a star-struck young girl with the excitement and pitfalls of Hollywood show business and acting.
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A chat with author Steve Haberman, who has penned a series of crime novels set in whole or in part in Paris.
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A chat with Berna Bennet, who has taught over two thousand children to swim. Her book on teaching children to swim went out of print in 1997, but a new e-book version makes the valuable information available once more.
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