From California's Joan Didion to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.

Famous quote: “No man can take your freedom ... in the Jazz Age has made him a defining voice of 20th-century American literature.

Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783, just 18 months after his namesake George Washington led America to ...

Severance’ author Ling Ma is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow; here are some other famous authors who were awarded the grants.

It’s hard to know where to start when exploring works by famous African-American authors. That’s why we’re spotlighting some ...

Here are four famous writers who once resided in the region ... weeks beforehand to be exact — Cheever was honored with the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Famous Hispanic American Gabaldon ... Gabriela Mistral was the first Hispanic person to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Although she was no stranger to tragedy, she used her pain to create ...

The American author cast his spell over Europe ... average man does something no one has ever done before and becomes very, very famous." ...