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The Stud was the second novel written by English author Jackie Collins. It was first published in 1969, just one year after the publication of her first novelquickly became a bestseller.

Collins received a large amount of criticism for The Stud....

Jostein Gaarder is well-known for writing from the perspective of children and the majority of his books are aimed at a young audience. Sophie's World is somewhat of an exception to this as its intention is to bridge the gap between children's and...

The Virgin Suicides is American Writer Jeffrey Eugenides's debut novel in 1993. Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended Brown University in his undergrad education and then obtained an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford.

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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child was written by Francisco Jimenez, an award-winning author who emigrated from Mexico to the United States. This heartfelt novel engrosses readers in a world of hard manual labor, grueling...

Published in 2008, Cockroach is the second novel by Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage. The novel is a dark comedy which draws on Hage's own background as a Lebanese immigrant living in Montreal.

Hage was born in Beirut and grew up there during...

Jodi Picoult is an American novelist born on May 19, 1966 in Long Island, New York. She grew up surrounded by art and literature considering both her mother and grandmother were English teachers. They were a heavy influence on her as a child,...

White Oleander is a novel which was written by American author Janet Fitch in 1999. It is Bildungsroman novel, which is based on the psychological, moral and social formation of the personality of the protagonist. Little, Brown and Company...

Such A Pretty Girl is a novel for young adults written by Laura Wiess. It deals with the difficult and controversial topic of child sex abuse and the failure of the legal system to fully protect victims from their abuser.

Meredith Shale is a...

Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a novel written by Chris Crowe, an American teacher and author, published in 2002. It was the recipient of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel.

Crowe's book centers around a young...

Sigmund Freud’s New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis were first published in 1933, and intended as a supplement to his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, delivered between 1915 and 1917 at the Vienna Psychiatric Clinic. In 1932, the...

True West premiered on December 23, 1980 at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York. But, it came to prominence when it was revived by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago who would later bring it back to the New York before performing a...

Uncle Tom’s Children is a novel written by Richard Wright that was first published in 1938 and republished in 1940. As the reader may recognize, Wright titled his book after Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was...

Zora Neale Hurston was an African American writer who lived mainly during the 1900s. She wrote everything from novels to short stories, contributing to the dynamic African American literary scene. She published four novels and over fifty short...

What could be a worse fate for a modern American female poet than to be lumped into a nebulous, chauvinistic and ever slightly misogynistic pool of cess stereotyped as a “domestic poet.” Anyone unfamiliar with the term coming across it from the...

Born in Jamaica where he first published two collections of poem for juveniles, Claude McKay migrated to the U.S where he attended both Tuskegee Institute and Kansas State Univ. before becoming an essential and integral part of the Harlem...

The knock against Marge Piercy’s poems—despite the plethora of work produced by this most prolific of American writers—has always been that she is too willing to sacrifice artistry for polemics. While true that Piercy is a staunchly feminist...

Shadows on the Rock is a 1931 novel by Willa Cather. The “rock” of the title is Quebec City which becomes the setting for a tale of some of the earliest French settlers in the New World. The novel really does not have much of a plot per se and...

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer is Steven Millhauser's most successful novel. Published in 1996, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. Needless to say, critics greeted Millhauser's latest with...

Anil's Ghost is the fourth novel written by the Sri-Lankan born Canadian author Michael Ondaatje; it was published in English by McClelland & Stewart Publishers on March 30, 2000. The title was not pulled out of the blue. Anil's Ghost could be...

Patrick D. Smith (1927-2014) writes predominantly historical fiction. Hailing from Florida, his writing tends to focus upon the American south and America's frontier days. He attended college at the University of Mississippi before pursuing his...

Top Girls is one of Caryl Churchill’s most well known plays. It premiered at the Royal Court Theater in London on August 28, 1982, and won the Obie Award for Best Play of the Year. In its first run at the Royal Court, the cast included Gwen Taylor...

Thornton Wilder is the author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which was originally published during 1927. It was published again during 2003 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics. It tells the story of a monk, Brother Juniper, witnessing a tragic...

The Other Boleyn Girl is an historical novel by British author Philippa Gregory. It is loosely based on the life of 16th Century Aristocrat Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn, but beyond that little of her is known. Gregory's novel is inspired...

Delillo was already a well-accomplished author some time before his '97 release, Underworld. Having already won many awardsincludinga Pulitzer Prize and a Gugenheim fellowship, Delillo had already risen in the ranks garnering comparison to Thomas...