Many well-known authors use collaborators, writing teams, or official ghostwriters to keep up with demand, maintain large franchises, or continue series after their deaths. While some readers are ...

The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.

Contrary to our romanticized notions, writers don’t just sit around all day, drink coffee and Scotch, and wait for inspiration to strike. Like any other job, they have to be disciplined and productive ...

Boston is the birthplace of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Frost, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Sylvia Plath, and countless other authors of note at one time or another ...

There's a stereotype woven throughout literary history, and that is the idea of the tortured and boozy writer. From the smoky cafes of Paris to the raucous New York speakeasies of the Jazz Age, the ...

Nearly 47 years ago, in July 1970, The Atlantic published “Let Us Now Appraise Famous Writers”—a devastating, and at times wickedly funny, takedown of a huge mail-order correspondence school called ...

Colm Tóibín’s preoccupation with blood ties is evident in the titles of his fiction (“Mothers and Sons,” “The Empty Family”) and literary criticism (he called a 2012 volume of essays “New Ways to Kill ...

Cats have been curling up in the laps of great literary minds for centuries. They have offered companionship during long writing sessions and have inspired memorable characters or even entire books.

This is a story about dreams and money. After all, financial planning starts with one personal question: What is your vision of an ideal life? To rewrite that question in more affecting way: What ...