A romantic English patriot and devout Catholic convert; a friend of Shaw and Orwell and an enemy of modernity; an opponent of socialism and a staunch foe of capitalism: the paradoxes of Chesterton make an elegant closing flourish for our series on the Author Bank.
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WoolfAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard In her narrative techniques and personal ideals, Woolf was emblematic of all of twentieth-century literature. It has been pointed out (sometimes even
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HurstonAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard One aspect of American culture sailed here in the Mayflower; another, in the Amistad. Three years after the birth of their fifth
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MorrisonAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Morrison re-presents a perennial theme in our literature: the mystery of iniquity, of not only suffering but active evil. She also hints
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Student Essay: More Than Food and Drink By Hannah Simmons Hospitality has a close relationship to literature on the one hand and human purpose on the other. In
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OrwellAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Honesty is not always welcome, in either the halls of power or the salons of culture; but there can be no art
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HemingwayAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Hemingway’s matter and style both have proven some of the most profound influences upon American literature. The novelist Gertrude Stein, twenty-five years
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ProustAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Proust shaped twentieth-century literature not only in his native France, but throughout the English-speaking world. The nineteenth century was a period of
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FitzgeraldAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Fun and unhappiness blend in a peculiar manner in Fitzgerald’s work. Though he died abruptly of a heart attack at only 44
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CatherAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Few authors achieve the distinctive transparency of Cather’s work. ❧ Full name: Willa (née Wilella) Sibert Cather [wĭł-à, wĭ-lĕł-à sē-bŕt kăð-ŕ; see
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