Authors

John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life

By Megan McCluskey

Jesmyn Ward, Heir to Faulkner, Probes the Specter of Race In the South

By Sarah Begley

J.K. Rowling Reveals the Empowering Advice She Needed to Hear When She Was Writing Harry Potter

By Megan McCluskey

Stephen King Trolls Donald Trump's Wiretap Claim With Hair-Raising Horror Story

By Megan McCluskey
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Read the Roald Dahl Poem That Was Lost in a Desk Drawer for Nearly 25 Years

It's on display for what would have been the author's 100th birthday

By Megan McCluskey

Author Says New Book Will Be the 'African Games of Thrones'

"I realized how sick and tired I was of arguing about whether there should be a black hobbit in Lord of the Rings"

By Maya Rhodan

Watch Nicki Minaj Deliver a Powerful Reading of Maya Angelou's 'Still I Rise'

The artist performed the work at a benefit concert

By Megan McCluskey

See Photos of the Real Dalton Trumbo

The blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter is portrayed by Bryan Cranston in the new movie Trumbo

By Eliza Berman

This Is How 'Lady Authors' Were Told to Promote Their Books in the 1960s

"The new sort of lady author is always photographed in bed"

By Eliza Berman

How Toni Morrison's New Novel Answers Her Critics

Her newest book, 'God Help the Child,' will be released on April 21, 2015

By Lily Rothman

See Harper Lee's Secluded Alabama Life

In 1961, LIFE photographed the To Kill a Mockingbird author on a visit to Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Ala., where she lives today

By Eliza Berman

Harper Lee's New Book Raises Concerns Over Author's Care

Has Harper Lee been unduly pressured to publish her forthcoming novel?

By Sabrina Toppa

How Betty Friedan Responded to Her Critics

'Children don't need all that mommyness. It doesn't matter to them who waxes the floor,' the author said after writing The Feminine Mystique, which was published on Feb. 19, 1963

By Eliza Berman

John Grisham Says Child-Porn Sentences Often Too Harsh

“These are people who haven’t hurt anybody. They deserve some type of punishment, whatever, but 10 years in prison?”

By Maya Rhodan

I'm a Woman Who Lived as a Boy: My Years as a Bacha Posh

For 9 years of her youth in Afghanistan, Faheema lived as Faheem—a boy, one free from the societal barriers and stigmas women face

By Jenny Nordberg

Behind the Scenes with John Green

The author of The Fault in Our Stars watches his book become a movie

By Lev Grossman

Your Chipotle Burrito Will Now Come With a Side of Literature

Want a dollop of self-examination with your burrito bowl?

By Kyle Chayka

Robert Frost: An American Poet Revisits Old Haunts in England

LIFE.com pays tribute to the great American poet Robert Frost with a series of photos made in England -- where he once lived -- in 1957.

By Ben Cosgrove

Eire Apparent: Recalling Sean O'Casey's Vanished Ireland

LIFE photographer Gjon Mili's pictures from the 1950s recall an Ireland that today endures largely in memory and in the country's astonishing literature.

By Ben Cosgrove

William S. Burroughs at 100: Rebel, Junkie, Exile, Genius

On the centenary of the writer and spoken-word pioneer's birth, LIFE presents photos of the famed iconoclast in Paris in 1959, the year his landmark novel, 'Naked Lunch,' was published.

By Ben Cosgrove
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