List of All Articles with Tag 'authors'

From James Baldwin to Gertrude Stein and beyond, literature’s most celebrated authors have faced stinging and ruthless rejections.

Novelists have used everything from real killers to newsworthy hostage situations to literal white whales to craft their fiction.

The true facts surrounding the classic work are as mysterious and intriguing as the novel itself.

A group of famous fiction writers joined the Authors Guild in filing a class action suit against OpenAI on Wednesday, alleging the company's technology is illegally using their copyrighted work.

The novelist endured a crash in East Africa. Then his 'rescue' plane went down, too.

These stories need no contrivances to create places that are lonely and old, a place where bad things are kept hushed up instead of dealt with.

Four Irish writers have been longlisted for this year's award, making up a third of the longlist.

These offenses include everything from historical forgeries to audacious heists to cold-blooded murder—all with a bookish twist.

Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

'The Canterbury Tales' author Geoffrey Chaucer's work spanned poetry and prose and ranged from the humorous to the scientific—but there's so much more to know about the "father of English poetry."

'Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Story With Mino the Magician' was originally part of a museum fundraiser.

Robert Louis Stevenson ('Treasure Island,' 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde') is one of Scotland’s foremost writers—and his life, like his most famous stories, was full of both adventure and misfortune.