America’s greatest most polarizing novelist strikes again. Aside from penning best-selling, Pulitzer-winning novels, Jonathan Franzen’s hobbies include birdwatching and grumpily critiquing everything from the looks of classic female authors to…
When Gone Girl burst onto the scene in 2012, with its intoxicating tale of marriage gone wrong and its fist-pump-inducing rant on the Cool Girl, the stage was soon set…
Colleen McCullough, a former neurophysiological researcher at Yale who, deciding to write novels in her spare time, produced “The Thorn Birds,” a multigenerational Australian romance that became an international best…
The literary agent Bill Clegg is renowned in the publishing world as a ruthless negotiator who routinely wrings fat six- and seven-figure advances out of editors for experimental debut novels…
Although Virginia Woolf is now accepted as a major writer and an early feminist, her work wasn’t embraced or widely anthologized until nearly 50 years after her novels were published….