But today, these and other rare recordings of famous authors are just a mouse click ... while the Doug Parker Band plays jazz in the background. This is the only known recording of Virginia ...

Once, a famous writer gave a talk to a lot of aspiring writers. This kind of thing happens all the time — and not just at colleges and universities, but at weekend scriptwriting workshop ...

Under the title of "Paris, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers," Esther Singleton has collected over fifty interesting descriptions of the famous capital by such authors as Victor Hugo ...

As his biographer Selina Hastings writes, “For much of his long life”—he died in 1965, at ninety-one—Maugham was “the most famous writer in the world.” He had the kind of celebrity ...