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England's best espionage writers found fame after World War II, but the spy-fiction genre was born when popular British detective fiction was infused with pre-WWI invasion anxieties.

Nationally syndicated, Kendal Rautzhan writes and lectures on children's literature.

Watch closely, she says, and you'll see an ancient creative process unfolding in a relatively new -- and faster -- storytelling medium.

Stories on Stage is a series in which actors read literature to a live audience.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills recently won an American Library Association Stonewall Award "for a work of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience" for her young adult novel Beautiful Music for Ugly Children .

Mysore, Mar. 11- A State-level seminar on Rashtrakavi Dr. G.S. Shivarudrappa's personality and poetry and a State-level Dr. GSS Bhavageethe recitation contest, organised by the Kannada department of University Evening College, began at Junior BA Hall of Maharaja's College this morning.

Tyler Quann holds the Dr. Seuss book, "Wacky Wednesday," during Lullaby's celebration of the children's author's birthday.

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The Lakewood Playhouse has announced its 76th season of shows! It's a season filled with laughter, mystery, literature, and stories that touch the heart.

Judy Mappin, left, with HA©lA ne Holden, one of the three original partners who started the bookstore, at a Mappin tribute at Montreal's Centaur Theatre, 24 Oct 2005.

American writer George Saunders won the 40,000 pound Folio Prize for literature on Monday with his humorous and disturbing short-story collection "Tenth of December."

George Saunders holds up a trophy after winning the Folio Prize at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Monday, March 10, 2014.

American writer George Saunders won the 40,000 pound Folio Prize for literature on Monday with his humorous and disturbing short-story collection "Tenth of December."

Donna Tartt, Eleanor Catton, and Margaret Atwood are among those nominated for this year's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction .

Blu-ray widescreen, DVD widescreen and HD UltraViolet digital copy, 2013, PG-13 for some violence, and intense depiction of thematic material Best extra: "A Hidden Truth: Bringing 'The Book Thief' to Life" in HD "IN EVERY BAD situation there is always hope," says Sophie Nlisse, the enigmatic and lively 13-year-old French-Canadian star of "The Book ... (more)

The Luminaries author and Man Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton has more plaudits in sight after being longlisted for the international Women's Prize for Fiction.

With claims from authors that the opening lines in novels must now "grab readers by the throat" to prevent them becoming distracted or bored, The Telegraph offers thier selection of the best first lines in literature Daily book trade headlines and breaking publishing news by email - just 3 a month.

The China-born Li is a UC Davis professor. At noon Wednesday, she will read from "Solitude" in a joint presentation with fellow UC Davis faculty member Lucy Corin at The Lounge in the Memorial Union Store on the UCD campus.

There's been an ongoing debating in the philosophical literature on morality for some time.

Huntingtower was a departure for John Buchan. Published between the third and fourth of his tremendous Richard Hannay novels, the book's protagonist is not a soldier-turned-spy, but instead a retired Scottish grocer who joins a quixotic effort to rescue a Russian noblewoman from Bolsheviks.