The two principal professions that produce factual and imaginative writing for the general public are journalism and literature, but many ancillary occupations are associated with writing and publishing.

History comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so-called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal.

A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the Founding Father dead and turned a sitting Vice President into a fugitive.

Come one and all to the Children’s Library
On the very last Saturday in February
For Seussical stories will be told
Entertaining everyone, young and old

John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga is perhaps most familiar as the source for two televised British miniseries, but in its own day it had high literary respect and indeed won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize in 1932 for what the Swedish Academy ter

A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force.

From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania.

During New York's Bibliography Week, the Library presents a two-part symposium devoted to the intersections of bibliographical,

From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.

Humor is all around us, every minute—that wee annoyance, or strange interaction, or the person on line in front of you at the post office. The hard part, as with any writing, is finding the courage to do it.

You are confident as a writer, but when someone asks you to read your work aloud your voice squeaks, you speed up, and your words lose all color. More and more authors are required to read from their work at book events and open mics.

Get the creative juices flowing in these fun and instructive sessions. Participants will receive a prompt and will have 20 minutes to write freely, after which they are encouraged to share their writing with the group.