Alison Bechdel

The writer’s business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story. Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist, most well-known for her graphic novel, Fun Home: A...

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is one of the most prominent American writers, activists, and creative minds in recent history. Angelou has an extensive list of published works, including the famous biography of her youth I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Heart of a Woman, and Letter...

Margaret Atwood

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word. Margaret Atwood is the poet and novelist behind the Handmaid’s Tale. She is well known for her feminist literary works, poetry collections, short stories, and literary criticism. She has received dozens of...

Mary Shelley

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Mary Shelly, author of Frankenstein, is credited by many as the creator of the Sci-fi genre. Shelley grew up and formed a life surrounded by literary influences,...

Happy Spring Break!

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