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

When we hear the names of writers, we usually think of their work first and not of the people who wrote them. But it doesn't change the fact that these authors existed and had full-blown lives that ...

It sounds strange, but some of the most beloved books in literary history were written by authors who could barely stand the sight of them. Fame has a funny way of trapping writers inside their own ...

Saying that a specific person “coined” a new word is often a fairly tricky fact to verify, not least because someone’s work containing the earliest written record of a word doesn’t necessarily mean ...