WRITING

“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

Think a post-job interview thank you note has gone the way of calling cards and phone books? Think again.

They write for the parents, too.

Hester Pulter broke convention—and the expectations of her gender and class—by writing about science and politics.

The 'A Wrinkle in Time' author, who would have turned 100 years old today, saw her most famous work get rejected 26 times.

A series of dime store turtles eventually led him to The Iron Throne.

You would never know from his books that Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine used to write joke books for kids under the name Jovial Bob Stine

Each year, hundreds of formal challenges asking for the removal of “inappropriate” books from shelves and syllabi are filed with schools and libraries across the country.

Celebrate Banned Books Week by giving these once-censored classics a read.

Even seasoned professors may have trouble spotting this trick.

A world without Roald Dahl would be a world without Oompa Loompas, Snozzcumbers, or Muggle-Wumps. And who would ever want to live in a world like that?

"I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter." —D.H. Lawrence