Roots won a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation in 1977, and the novel won the National Book Award Special Citation for History that same year.

“Rejection-math” can feed your fire and heighten your hope Calculating "rejection math." Photo: Unsplash Rejection is a universal...

This biography by Alison Gilbert and Julia Scheeres tells of Elsie Robinson who became a writer with 20 million readers in the mid 1900s.

Whether you need justification, motivation, or inspiration, writers will benefit from these four powerful insights from Marilyn Robinson.

Writers want the world to understand their words. Beatrix Potter, William Byrd, and Joseph Pulitzer, however, chose to write in secret code.

Classic works by well-known authors like Roald Dahl are being revised by publishers. But does changing the language alter our history?

People talk about the problems of pursuing a writing career. But there are many reasons Why I'm Thankful to Be a Writer!

Wordle is the simple word game created by Josh Wardle as a gift of love to his partner. Here's why millions of people love Wordle.

Prominent writers and The Authors Guild filed suit against OpenA1, the developer of GPT. Can writers win and get the credit they deserve?

After a failed merger with Penguin-Random House, Simon & Schuster is bought by KKR, a private equity firm. What will this mean to publishing

Olivia Hawker's novel, The Ragged Edge of Night, presents a philosophical question for writers: Should authors share political views?

To be a writer, you must write, but you also must read. Here are four of my favorite reads for writers, sure to energize your creative soul.

March 30 is National Pencil Day. In honor of the simple little pencil that changed the world, one writer celebrates with joy and gratitude.

Fillippo Bernardini worked in the publishing industry when he developed a phishing scam to steal unpublished manuscripts.

Creativity doesn't disappear as you age. Older women writers are proving that it's never too late to gain success.

Do you know Annie Ernaux, the French writer and the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature? She's the 17th woman to win.

Rather than focus on "going viral," real writers focus on building an oeuvre. Poe, Melville, and Hemingway all built oeuvres after failures.

Nicholas Evans' story gives writers hope. A debut author, he sold publishing and film rights to The Horse Whisperer for more than 6 million

If you love a writer, you can give them an awesome gift that will mean something to them without costing you a fortune.

The author of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein, was a prolific letter-writer. A handwritten letter sold for $400,000, May of 2021.