American author James Baldwin (1924-1987) during an interview at the Whitehall Hotel in Bloomsbury Square, London. (Photo by Jenkins/Getty Images) In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he ...

Looking at the literary women and writers of the past grants us insight into our current times. Like each birth month, each of these visionaries specializes in their own craft, tone, tempo, and mood.

Edmund White, the gay literary icon who witnessed the Stonewall uprising and influenced a generation of LGBTQ+ writers, has died. According to The Guardian, White, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1985, ...

Chicago's historic Fine Arts Building and Exile in Bookville will co-present an evening with literary icon Percival Everett at the Studebaker Theater (410 S. Michigan Avenue) on Thursday, March 28 at ...

Renowned scholar of literature and culture, Biodun Jeyifo, is dead. Naija News understands that Jeyifo passed away on ...

Supposedly it was the literary icon F. Scott Fitzgerald who first observed, in a 1936 Esquire magazine essay, that "the test ...

“There isn't a single black gay writer of literary fiction or nonfiction that has not been influenced by James Baldwin on some level," Charles Stephens, executive director of the Counter Narrative ...

In Baldwin’s exploration of race and identity, he went beyond politics to examine racism’s psychological and spiritual effects on both the oppressor and the oppressed. He wrote about sexuality and ...