On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching six year old Helen Keller how to connect to a world she could neither see nor hear. She began by spelling […]

On this day in 1930, D.H. Lawrence died at his rented home in Vence, France. Two days later, he was buried in the town cemetery. It was not to be […]

On this day in 1360, the Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe paid £16, the equivalent about $15,000 to ransom a soldier who had been captured in the Burgundy region during […]

On this day in 1996, Joan Collins struck a blow for writers everywhere when a judge ruled that her publisher, Random House, should pay her an extra million dollars on […]

On this day in 1749, Henry Fielding’s monumental novel “Tom Jones” was published, and helped establish the book as a means of conveying entertainment and enlightenment. A longtime lawyer and […]

This is Writers Gone Wild for Sunday, February 26, 2012. On this day in 1956, poet Sylvia Plath looked across a crowded room at a literary party and saw, as […]

On this day in 1904, John Millington Synge’s play “Riders of the Sea” premiered at Molesworth Hall in Dublin by the Irish National Theatre Society. Set on the Aran Islands […]