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Best-selling sci-fi and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin, 88
January 30, 2018The award-winning and best-selling science fiction writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books has died.
Read moreNew film is a double portrait of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne
March 28, 2017The film examines how two friends on vastly different social levels were able to maintain their association, and ultimately what came between them.
Read moreAn appreciation of Oliver Sacks, 82
September 10, 2015Sacks' writing chronicled case histories of his brain-disordered patients whose challenges were detailed in sympathetic and fascinating ways.
Read moreToday in history: Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling turns 50
July 31, 2015She's best known as the author of Harry Potter, which has achieved worldwide reknown, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.
Read moreToday in women’s history: Ding Ling, forgotten Chinese author, remembered
March 4, 2015On this date in 1986, the writer Ding Ling, a champion of women's rights, died. Born as Jiang Bingzhi in Linli, Hunan province, China.
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