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Category: Books & Authors

Photo: Louisa May Alcott, from “Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals,” published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1889. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Author Louisa May Alcott: Loved in Her Day, and Now (part 2)

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 8, 2025

In this second article, Katie Rebecca Merkley writes more about her lifelong love of the author Louisa May Alcott, especially her novel “Little Women.”.. (Read More)

Photo: Louisa May Alcott, from “Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals,” published by Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1889. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Author Louisa May Alcott: Loved in Her Day, and Now (part 1)

By Katie Rebecca Merkley on April 7, 2025

In this two-part article, Katie Rebecca Merkley writes of her lifelong love of the author Louisa May Alcott, especially her novel “Little Women.”.. (Read More)

Photo: Robert Burns Monument in Dorchester Square, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Credit: Emdx; Wikimedia Commons.

Robert Burns Night Tomorrow – Are You Celebrating?

By Melissa Berry on January 24, 2025

Melissa Berry describes how Burns Night – honoring the Scottish poet Robert Burns – has been celebrated for over 200 years; “Auld Lang Syne” indeed!.. (Read More)

Photo: first-edition cover of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960) by the American author Harper Lee. Credit: Shirley Smith; Wikimedia Commons.

The 60th Anniversary of the Movie ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’

By Jane Cook on June 7, 2022

In this article, Jane Hampton Cook tells some background stories about “To Kill a Mockingbird” – both the book and the movie have become classics... (Read More)

Illustration: "The Scarlet Letter" by Hugues Merle, 1861. Credit: Walters Art Museum; Wikimedia Commons.

Searching Sources for Hawthorne’s ‘The Scarlet Letter’

By Melissa Berry on August 31, 2021

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about court cases that may have influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne when he wrote “The Scarlet Letter.”.. (Read More)

Photo: stacks of books. Credit: Heffloaf; Wikimedia Commons.

What I Learned about Genealogy from My Book Club

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on August 9, 2021

In this article, for National Book Lovers Day, Gena Philibert-Ortega shares some of the lessons she’s learned about genealogy from her two book clubs... (Read More)

Dr. Seuss, American writer and cartoonist, at work on a drawing of the grinch for "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," by Al Ravenna, World Telegram staff photographer, 1957. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

On This Day: Dr. Seuss, Beloved Children’s Author, Died

By Tony Pettinato on September 24, 2020

Today is the anniversary of the death of Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. “Dr. Seuss” (1904-1991), who died on 24 September 1991 at the age of 87... (Read More)

Photo: cover of the first U.S. edition of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain, 1884. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Mark Twain Defends ‘Huckleberry Finn’

By Tony Pettinato on August 14, 2020

An article about the acerbic response Mark Twain wrote when the Denver Public Library banned “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in 1902... (Read More)

Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Charles Osgood, 1840. Credit: Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of Richard C. Manning, 1933; Wikimedia Commons.

Writer Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Real-Life ‘Ghost Story’

By Melissa Berry on October 31, 2019

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry tells an eerie tale about Nathaniel Hawthorne and a troubled spirit that came to him in a seance... (Read More)

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