Famous Authors

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In a celebration of the brilliant female authors of the past, we’ve collated a list of our top ten classic feminist novels.

Charles Dickens writes with a quill at his desk in 1858. He wrote everything by hand, from 9am to 2pm every day. Writing inspiration.

Kurt Vonnegut, ca. 1972. Photograph by PBS This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words on the p...

UNESCO on Instagram: "On this day in 1950, famed author George Orwell passed away in London, England. The year before his passing, he published one of his most famous works – 1984 – a fictional story that took readers into a dystopian future of government control and surveillance. Orwell, whose birth name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Bengal (present-day India) in 1903. From a young age he was convinced he would be a famous author. The year before his passing, he published one of his…

Famous Authors Who Hated Each Other’s Writing

From California's Joan Didion to Maine's Stephen King, here are the most famous authors from every state.

Writers Write is a writing resource. In this post, we share images of the writing desks of 7 famous authors.

Whether studying or lecturing, each of these authors have spent time at the oldest university in the UK. Which famous authors went to Oxford?

To mark the beginning of National Storytelling Week, AnOther compile their selection of the top 10 most incredible libraries from across the globe.