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Can You Identify the Handwriting of These 12 Famous Authors?
Can You Identify the Handwriting of These 12 Famous Authors?
By Adina Applebaum
June 10, 2014

Prove once and for all that you’re Oscar Wilde’s greatest fan by identifying his penmanship.

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Write, Camera, Action: 11 Authors Who Wrote Screenplays
Write, Camera, Action: 11 Authors Who Wrote Screenplays
By Michelle King
June 03, 2014

And you thought Joan Didion, William Faulkner and Dave Eggers only wrote books.

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What's It Like to Write a Novel in Prison?
What's It Like to Write a Novel in Prison?
By Justin Glawe
May 30, 2014

Daniel Genis wrote an alternate history novel called Narcotica while incarcerated for 10 years for his own drug-related crimes. The “polite robber” is now a sober author.

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8 Hours a Slave: Continuing to Write Despite Working in a Cubicle
8 Hours a Slave: Continuing to Write Despite Working in a Cubicle
By Genna Rivieccio
May 29, 2014

Five dead-end jobs into your 20s with nothing to show for it but a scant 401(k) and the will to keep the dream alive.

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Sentences from Sentences: 5 Famous Authors Who Went to Prison
Sentences from Sentences: 5 Famous Authors Who Went to Prison
By George Dobbs
May 16, 2014

On the 297th anniversary of Voltaire’s imprisonment in the Bastille, we celebrate authors who made the most of their time served.

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Based on True Events: 5 Famous Authors on Hollywood
Based on True Events: 5 Famous Authors on Hollywood
By George Dobbs
March 27, 2014

Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner and more comment on screenwriting, films and Hollywood at large.

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Don’t Let This Never-Ending Winter Get You Down: 20 Motivational Author Quotes
Don’t Let This Never-Ending Winter Get You Down: 20 Motivational Author Quotes
By Michelle King
March 26, 2014

Your Seasonal Affective Disorder may now be chronic, but that doesn’t mean you should quit writing.

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No, Seriously: MFA or NYC?
No, Seriously: MFA or NYC?
By Peter Madsen
March 19, 2014

With one book published and another incubating, a writer considers the options offered up in n+1’s most recent collection of essays.

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Virginia Woolf’s Advice on Creating Memorable Characters
Virginia Woolf’s Advice on Creating Memorable Characters
By Freddie Moore
March 10, 2014

We’re celebrating the 101st anniversary of Woolf delivering her first book to its publisher with a breakdown of her essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.

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10 Historic Literary Cliques
10 Historic Literary Cliques
By Helen Schumacher
December 13, 2013

Who knew high lit was so high school?

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