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Robert Penn Warren (1905- 1989) on Hemingway (1899-1961) : Hemingway’s heroes are not squealers, welchers, compromisers, or cowards, and ...

American writer Truman Capote was born in New Orleans (1924). Even as a child, Capote wanted to become famous. He moved with his mother to...

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri (1928), the author of six autobiographical volumes, including I Know...

The Apology Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men. Tax not...

Poet E. E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1894). He was a man who wrote joyful, almost childlike p...

since feeling is first since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be...

American poet Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, in 1868. Masters grew up in the small town of Lewiston, Illinois, in the Spoon ...

"You Are My Sunshine" is a popular song first recorded in 1939. It has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana. Words an...

As the new world opened up and exotic specimens and curiosities were brought back from faraway lands a new thirst for knowledge of traveller...

Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy, residing between the Ape...

Singer and guitarist Doc Watson, born in Deep Gap, North Carolina, 1923. When it's peach picking time in Georgia apple picking tim...

Design I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth— Assort...

Sonnet: Love Is Not All Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to m...

The travel writer Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa (1952). As a young man he settled in England and supported himself with a serie...

Among the many surviving Native American legends is this poem concerning an Algonkin woman who probably lived near what is now Maine, at a t...

I talked to a farmer one day in Iowa. We looked out far over acres of wheat. He spoke with pride and yet not boastfully; he had no need t...

Writer and revolutionary Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England (1737). He's best known for writing Common Sense (1776), the pamphl...

The poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts (1830), who dropped out of college at Mount Holyoke to take care of the family ...

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California (1902). He is the author of the epic novel The Grapes Of Wrath (1939), and also Of Mice and...

I used to date him and hang out with his friends we stole NO DUMPING signs and placed them over toilets we watched bad comedies and even wor...