The American Writers Museum, seven years in the making, is an endeavor even the most daring author might shy from: How, on a single floor of an office building, do you tell the story of centuries of ...

By championing now-essential writers like William Faulkner, Malcolm Cowley helped remake the U.S. literary canon.

Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933 to a family of sharecroppers at River Lake Plantation in Oscar, La. They lived in the workers quarters on a dirt road lined on both sides with two-room cabins built ...

Maps of America have recently looked red and blue, but this one from British bookseller Geoff Sawers and his co-artist Bridget Hannigan is pure ink. Instead of outlines of states, this map, brought to ...

An unknown story by Truman Capote has been published for the first time after it was discovered hiding in plain sight in a red notebook belonging to the acclaimed author.Capote, a famous American ...