Philip Roth was one of the first writers who made me want to write myself. I read  Goodbye, Columbus in my early teens, around the time...

Paddy Chayefsky came out of the US Army's  104th Infantry Division with a Purple Heart and a new first name on February 27, 1946,  a...

Emily Post (1872-1960) was an American author famous for writing about etiquette.  Post was born Emily Price in Baltimore. After being e...

Artificial  intelligence and typewriters? Well, not quite, but "electronic intelligence" was added to the IBM electric in 1956 ...

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writin...

Editor Harvey Kurtzman , who claimed the image of Alfred E. Neuman for MAD magazine in 1954 Alfred E. Neuman was named by MAD...

Today's Google Doodle features  Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann, the "Lady of the Lines", a  German mathematician, scientist, ...