Learning Through Writing

from the Richmond Times-Dispatch My Life: Imparting life lessons among 10th-grade teacher’s favorite tasks by Christina Grande CHRISTINA GRANDE When I was in third grade, I dressed up as a teacher for Halloween. My mom sprayed my jet-black hair gray (with...

Thanks, Ricki Hall

from the Express and Star World Book Day: What are the stars reading? Ricki Hall recommended James Frey’s novel From a biography of a Second World War hero to a literary thriller about a man born out of wedlock to a feminist leader – the favourite reads of Black...

Umberto Eco Gone

from NPR Italian Author And Philosopher Umberto Eco Dead At 84 by MERRIT KENNEDY Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Internationally acclaimed Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco has died at age 84. His death was confirmed by his American publisher Houghton Mifflin...

Harper Lee Gone

from The Washington Post Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead By Emily Langer Harper Lee at the White House in 2007. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,”...