"When I found these cigarettes you had left I thought at first to keep them as a remembrance. But I am far from needing a remembrance." —From Max Perkins's first letter to Elizabeth Lemmon,
"[Rawlings is] among the first ten American story writers today."--The New Republic, 1940 "She will help to make the American short story a living part of our literature."--Boston
Born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle was a preeminent figure in Victorian letters. Carlyle was widely reviewed, discussed, praised and criticized during his lifetime, because of his controversial ideas as wel
From her first awkward poems and stories, to her finely crafted essays as a newspaper and feature writer, to the gathering brilliance that began from the outset of her Florida Period, highlighted by t
Bon mots from one of the twentieth century’s most beloved writers “These impeccably chosen passages are a trenchant reminder that Margaret Rawlings is one of our country’s greatest writers. Brent Kin
