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Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle...

Kristine Kathryn Rusch (born June 4, 1960) is an American writer and editor. She writes under various pseudonyms in multiple genres, including science...

Tirant lo Blanch (Valencian pronunciation: [tiˈɾand lo ˈblaŋ(k)] ; modern spelling: Tirant lo Blanc), in English Tirant the White, is a chivalric romance...

Autofiction is, in literary criticism, a form of fictionalized autobiography. In autofiction, an author may decide to recount their life in the third person...

David Copperfield is the protagonist after which the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield was named. The character is widely thought to be based...

Golem XIV is a book written by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem, published in 1981. It is a philosophical essay in the format of science fiction...

Telescreens are two-way video devices that appear in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Omnipresent and almost never turned off...

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are is a 1992 book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. The authors give a summary account of the evolutionary...

Herbert Russell Wakefield (1888 – 2 August 1964) was an English short-story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for...

Biblical software or Bible software is a group of computer applications designed to read, study and in some cases discuss biblical texts and concepts....

Love You Forever is a 1986 children's picture book written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Sheila McGraw. The story centers on a mother who sings a...

Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL, aka Lady Stothard, is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She...

Babette Deutsch (September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist. Babette Deutsch was born on September...

Meridian is a 1976 novel by Alice Walker. It has been described as Walker's "meditation on the modern civil rights movement." Meridian is about Meridian...

Bildung (German: [ˈbɪldʊŋ] , "education", "formation", etc.) refers to the German tradition of self-cultivation (as related to the German for: creation...

Hidden Passions: Secrets from the Diaries of Tabitha Lenox is a tie-in novelization released by HarperEntertainment in 2001, loosely based on the NBC soap...

Ronald H. Fritze (born 1951) is an American encyclopedist, historian, and writer known for his criticism of pseudohistoric ideas. Fritze earned his BA...

John Strausbaugh (born 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American author, cultural commentator, and host of The New York Times Weekend Explorer video...

Isabel Florence Hapgood (November 21, 1850 – June 26, 1928) was an American ecumenist, writer, and translator, especially of Russian and French texts....

Winter-Telling Stories is a collection of Kiowa tales written by Alice Marriott and illustrated by Roland Whitehorse. Marriott relates a number of stories...