Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Writers have always had the ability to shift paradigms, ...

When we hear the names of writers, we usually think of their work first and not of the people who wrote them. But it doesn't change the fact that these authors existed and had full-blown lives that ...

Through time and distance, there are certain writers whose works have changed literature, have changed cultures, and affected how humankind interprets life, culture and its imagination. They remain ...

Writers are known for their words, but sometimes they’d rather not sign their real name to them. Many famous authors took on secret identities to publish their work, and some pseudonyms even became ...

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One of the most famous and elusive literary mysteries in English literature has finally been solved. The Song of Wade - an incredibly popular poem from the Medieval period - was always believed to be ...

The brother, son and grandson of famous English writers, he carved out his own space as a composer, critic, columnist and historian. By Clay Risen Alexander Waugh, who throughout his varied career as ...

This was supposed to be a season for celebration at the New Yorker. A year’s worth of 100th-anniversary festivities for the crown jewel of Condé Nast’s media empire is set to culminate on Dec. 5 with ...