Margaret Atwood

LitStack Recs: Author -Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan & The Jesus Cow

3 years ago Lauren Alwan

Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan. By Beowulf Sheehan. Foreword by Salman Rushdie. If you need a gift for the...

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National Book Critics Circle Awards Winners

4 years ago Sharon Browning

The National Book Critics Circle has announced the winners of their 2016 awards, with Louis Erdrich winning the Fiction award...

National Book Critics Circle 2016 Finalists Announced

5 years ago Sharon Browning

The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for their 2016 awards, as well as the recipients of three...

Birthdays

On this day, July 30, in 1818, Emily Brontë was born in the village of Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The middle child of the three literary Brontë sisters, Emily was extremely shy and had very few friends or acquaintances beyond her family, often leaving the household only to go to church or to take walks in the surrounding countryside. Her only novel was Wuthering Heights, a surprisingly passionate book to have been written by such a shy and retiring soul. She never was able to realize the success of her book, for she died of tuberculosis a year after its publication, at age 30.