Ray Bradbury is more than just a legendary American novelist. He is also a short story writer, essayist, playwright screenwriter, poet, an owner of four cats, a father to four daughters, a grandfather to eight grandchildren, and he was a husband to Maggie until her death in November of 2003. They we...

This is the biography of John Champlin Gardner, Jr., an American writer, who was born in Batavia, New York. He was a teacher, lecturer, and prolific writer of fiction, children's books, poetry, radio plays, and scholarly medieval studies. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, graduated i...

William Faulkner Many great writers are criticized about the way they write there: novels, poems, essays, etc. Even some of the skilled writers are criticized, William Faulkner was a great writer that wrote several novels but was not criticized that much about the way he wrote. Although Faulkner...

Truman Capote, one of America's more colorful literary personalities, was born in New Orleans in 1924 and died in California in 1984. He wrote both fiction and non-fiction -- short stories, novels and novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays and films. His work of fiction that i...

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947, the son of Donald and Nellie Ruth king. His father, a merchant seaman, walked out on the family in 1950. His mother struggled with a number of low-paying jobs to support him and his adopted brother, David. As a child, Stephen Kin...

Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" is considered to be by critics and readers alike one of the most significant novels of the African American literature. It is the creative result of one of the most acclaimed writers of the American cultural scene. The author draws her inspiration and...

In the novels Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment, the authors, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Gustave Flaubert, use children to reflect the consequences of their parent's actions. The authors portray these consequences through the children with the of the purpose of Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary an...

Norman Mailer: Excesses all around One of the giants among mid-20th century American novelists, Norman Mailer has been described in a recent review of his latest book, The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing, as "Aquarius in winter," a not-so-gentle aging of his own 1960s' sobriquet, Aq...

Is Plausibility a good word for A Farewell to Arms? Many fiction novels have events that can be linked with experiences the author has gone through in their life, no matter how unclear from the author's experience it may be, marks of their lives can often be seen in many of their novels. The...

Realist literature is an approach to writing that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Although realism is not limited to any one century or group of writers, it is most often associated with the literary movement in 19th-century France, specifically with the Fren...

The Advantages of a First-Person Perspective in Literature There are several angles in which an author can tell a story. Writing a story in the first-person perspective, though, is the best angle because it has many advantages for both the reader and the author of the story. The reader will lea...

For many centuries, the Western Canon of literary works has set a standard for education by presenting the great and outstanding literary works of the past. As multiculturalism and equality thrive in the new millennium, the validity of the seemingly racially and sexually discriminating canon is bei...