Kathleen Winter is a novelist and short story writer who was born in 1960 in the north of England. One of her most prominent works, Annabel, was published in 2010 and is regarded as a daring and pathbreaking novel.

This novel was published by...

Firebird is a memoir by American poet Mark Doty. The memoir takes place mostly in the 1960s and covers Doty's life from ages six to sixteen, which he spent in Tennessee, Arizona, and other parts of the American South.

Firebird has been regarded as...

Like so much of Augusta Webster’s life, her 1878 collection of essays originally published in the Examiner sports a title that is a combination of the dramatic and ironic. The year of publication gives away the fact that this is a work of the...

Published posthumously, Moments of Being is a fragmented and disjointed collection of autobiographical sketches that is curiously close to the fundamental spirit of Woolf's experiments in stream-of-consciousness fiction. One way of approaching...

The Fishermen is a 2015 novel by Chigozie Obioma, an American Nigerian writer who is currently working at the University of Michigan. The fictional book is set in his native hometown, Akure, Nigeria during the 1990's.

The Fishermen chronicles the...

The Young Musician is a novel written by Horatio Alger. Alger was an American author who lived in the 1800s. He wrote many, many works, over a hundred books, about how success can be attained through honesty, virtue, and hard work. Even though his...

A prodigious French poet of Christian and Lebanese descent, Andree Chedid was a writer who questioned humanity, individuality, and the interconnected ties that bond a person to the rest of the world. Her 1983 novel, From Sleep Unbound, is a work...

In 2002, one of the most influential dramatists of the second half of the 20th century returned with great controversy to the Broadway stage. The playwright was Edward Albee—writer of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—and the play was titled The...

A Gesture Life is a highly acclaimed novel written by Chang-Rae Lee, who won the Asian American Literary Award for it. It is about a man named Doc Hata, who was a medic in WWII in a Japanese soldiers' camp, and his struggles to come to terms with...

‘night, Mother is Marsha Norman’s fifth produced play and was composed in 1981 before premiering in 1983. That same year would see Norman honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for a work often considered one of the darkest stories to ever earn...

Amina Gautier is an American novelist and essayist born in 1977 in New York City. An African-American and Puerto Rican woman, Gautier says that her heritage was a heavy influence on her growing up. She attended Prep for Prep in her teenage years,...

Girl in Translation is a novel written by Jean Kwok and published in 2010. About a Chinese-American immigrant girl and her struggle to fit between dual cultures, the book became a New York Times bestseller.

The protagonist of the novel is a girl...

Sweetness in the Belly is a novel written by Camilla Gibb. It was published in 2005 and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Camilla Gibb lives in Canada and has written a few books that have been well received internationally. She has a...

The Couple Next Door is a 2016 thriller novel by Shari Lapena, a former lawyer and English teacher turned acclaimed writer. Fast-paced and gripping, it involves a strange abduction, characters hiding dark secrets, and a riveting twist that make...

The Reader is a novel that was originally written in German in 1995 by author and law professor Bernard Schlink. In 1996 it was translated into English and published worldwide, becoming an instant best-seller. The novel was controversial as it...

Trouble is a novel written by Gary Schmidt and published in 2008. It is geared towards young adults, with the themes reaching much deeper than bullying and trouble of that sort. The moral lessons that the novel teaches are much more far reaching...