When she was 11, Helen wrote a story she thought was her own, and "The Frost King" was published by the director of the Perkins Institute.
Alfred Noyes - a British poet born in 1880, who was extremely popular during his lifetime - wrote a lyrical story about a doomed highwayman and Bess (...
At the age of seven, Helen Keller experienced her first real Christmas.
William Butler (W.B.) Yeats wrote the poem which consistently tops the list of Ireland's favorite poems.
This audio clip, in which Theodore Roosevelt talks about social and industrial justice, is from "A Confession of Faith," an address which TR originall...
Although he made very little money from this work, Edgar Allan Poe became famous after he wrote - and published - "The Raven.
The second production of the Mercury Theatre on the Air was Treasure Island.
On the 30th of October, 1938, Orson Welles - through his Mercury Theatre on the Air - broadcast an adapted, radio dramatization of the novel, War of t...
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was born 21 years after the United States Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" - between whites and people of...
