Singer and actress Julie Andrews began a new career when she teamed with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton to write a hugely successful series of children's books.

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, returned to Cornell March 7, 2013 for a conversation about literature, politics and, especially, language.

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist.

Clint Smith will teach you about the legendary writer Toni Morrison. Morrison is best known for her novels which chronicle the experiences of Black Americans throughout history. She was the first Black American Woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

One of the most influential periods in Black American History post-slavery is the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is "Their Eyes Were Watching God," publ...

Follows the life of the French author of such fanciful travel and science fiction tales.

Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND is said to be the most quoted book in print, second only to The Bible, with a passionate army of fans who regularly congregate around the world to celebrate its rich and playful world. But what of its creator, the mild-mannered and una...

Explore the haunting and intimate works of poet Sylvia Plath, who digs into issues of mental health, trauma and sexuality in works like “The Bell Jar.”

The prisoner strapped under a descending pendulum blade. A raven who refuses to leave the narrator’s chamber. A beating heart buried under the floorboards. Poe’s macabre and innovative stories of gothic horror have left a timeless mark on literature. But...

English writer Mary Shelley is best known for her horror novel "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus." She was married to poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Did you know the original Frankenstein’s Creature is a highly intelligent vegetarian who hates the idea of harming another living creature? Or that the author Mary Shelley came up with the idea for the original novel in a dream while on a holiday with her...

Elizabeth Robins Pennell was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London.

Margaret Mead was a cultural anthropologist and writer best known for her studies and publications on the subject.