By DORIE TURNER, Associated Press
ATLANTA – Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University’s library.
The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Color Purple,” “By the Light of My Father’s Smile” and other works visits Emory every couple of years for readings and meetings with faculty members. [...]
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British sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 on Dec. 16.
Clarke penned the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was adapted into Stanley Kubrick’s big-screen sci-fi favorite.
Clarke is also the last surviving member of the “Big Three” of science fiction authors (the other two members of the geeky coterie were Isaac Asimov and [...]
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Kurt Vonnegut died this past April, at the age of 84. He was a prolific novelist known for works blending satire, dark humor, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five. He was also a graphic artist and produced silk-screen prints of his works.
Vonnegut gave the following interview to J. Rentilly for US Airways magazine just [...]
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This is an article from the December issue of Randy Ingermanson’s (creator of the Snowflake Method) Advanced Fiction Writing newsletter
[BTW: Check out the Advanced Fiction Writing Blog . It is updated frequently and filled with great information and answers to reader's questions.]
If you want to drive from Los Angeles to New York, you
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