authorship

In speeches, essays, and book reviews, the novelist Katherine Paterson discusses why she writes children's books, where her ideas come from, how she develops her characters and realistic plots, and her experiences growing up in China.

A collection of essays, critical articles, reviews, and journal entries which explore the works of Theodore Roethke.

Author Carolyn See offers beginning writers advice on improving their work, getting published, finding support from other writers, and living the literary life.

Shakespeare scholar Kate Stanley is given a mysterious box that holds the first piece in a Shakespeare puzzle; however, before she sets out on the trail of a 400-year-old mystery, the Globe Theater burns and a body is found, murdered in the manner of Hamlet's father.

Presents the life and works of Charles Dickens. Includes a chronology.

The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do.