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This Week in Literary History: August 28 to September 5

August 28: On this day in 1929, the editing of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, a process he compares to putting a corset on an elephant.

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In the footsteps of Heidi in the Swiss Alps

MAIENFELD, SWITZERLAND — The alpine meadows. The soaring mountains. The cute little goats with bells around their necks, chiming away in the shadow of a hillside chalet.

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This Week in Literary History: August 16 to August 24

August 16: Peggy Marsh, better known as Margaret Mitchell, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gone With The Wind dies on this day in 1949.

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This Week in Literary History: August 11 to 15

August 11: Blows are exchanged between Ernest Hemingway and Max Eastman in Maxwell Perkins' office on this day in 1937 after Hemingway rips open his shirt to show he really does ha[...]

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Literary Places Book Review: Butterfly's Child.

Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner Random House Review by Literary Places The story isn't over when the spurned Asian wife kills herself.

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This Week in Literary History August 3 to August 8

The Writer's Museum in Edinburgh dedicated to the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns.

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In the footsteps of Scarlett O'Hara and Gone With The Wind

Atlanta, GEORGIA – They call themselves “Windies”, fans so inspired by just one book that they wear re-created costumes, quote whole scenes and name their children Bonnie.

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Literary Travel: Civil War and the story behind the photograph

The American Civil War was the most devastating conflict the United States ever endured.

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This Week in Literary History: July 26 to August 4

July 26: On this day in 1848, Ivan Turgenev witnessed the collapse of the Revolution in Paris which he will use as material later for his novel RudinRudin published in 1855.

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Special This Day in Literary History to my sister

For Christmas one year, my sister Anne gave me a book about important dates in literary history.

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