The Mark Twain House & Museum has announced the Short List of titles for The 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award! The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award honors an exemplary ...

American author James Baldwin (1924-1987) during an interview at the Whitehall Hotel in Bloomsbury Square, London. (Photo by Jenkins/Getty Images) In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award was established in 2016 and is ...

Jennifer Haigh has visited The Mark Twain House and Museum before for a reading and signing event. She returns this week as the winner of the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award for her ...

These lines from Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Rouge Bouquet” memorialize the death of 19 of his fellow American soldiers on March 7, 1918, during a German artillery bombardment of “The Fighting 69th” in the ...

Paul Contino professor of great books at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., discusses Catholic fiction and poetry with author Tobias Wolff Sept. 20, 2019, at the Catholic Imagination Conference ...

Literary oddsmakers were caught short last week with the announcement that V. S. Naipaul had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Sir Vidia has long been thought unofficially ineligible, not least ...

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Binyavanga Wainaina, the acclaimed Kenyan author who inspired a generation of writers and became one of the most prominent Africans ever to publicly identify as gay, died on Tuesday in Nairobi. He was ...

In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he went beyond politics to examine racism’s psychological and spiritual effects on both the oppressor and the oppressed. He wrote about sexuality and ...