Earlier this month, I ventured out to check out a writer's group that meets monthly in Salem. The speaker was a former professor of mine...

Here are 13 famous U.S. female journalists (in no particular order). Ida B. Wells 1. Ida B. Wells (1862–1931), black American journal...

On May 12, my friend Becky Mushko, author of Them That Go and a other books, visited the Fincastle Library. She came dressed in costume. ...

Saturday my husband and I went to Barnes and Noble, Tanglewood, in Roanoke, to hear Beth Macy talk about her book, Factory Man. Beth an...

This coming Saturday, September 10, from 1 - 3 p.m., Amanda Cockrell , Director of Hollins University’s Children’s Lit Grad Program, will be...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is perhaps best known for her short story/novella, The Yellow Wallpaper . This is a story which details...

A very long time ago, a young girl ran across a poster. It looked exactly like this: Click Here . It featured a short little epistle ...

Annie Marion MacLean (ca. 1870 - 1934) was a sociologist and writer who lived at the turn of the century. She was the first woman to ever ...

On Facebook my friend Becky, who writes Peevish Pen , had a list of influential authors "who will always stick with you" listed in...

Click here for a photo of Mary Johnston . Mary Johnston's 23 novels are relatively obscure in this new millennium. The best-selling no...

In a recent post about voting I mentioned Mary Johnston, so I thought I'd tell you a bit more about this novelist and relay a little st...