Writers and poets

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck | Brain Pickings

Genius, captured on camera.

Too readily classified, or dismissed, as a Southern Gothicist, Carson McCullers (1917–1967) is one of the most radical writers of the American

Adam Gopnik writes about the discovery of a letter written by Albert Camus, in 1943, on the philosophical crisis of the French Resistance, and how the letter’s message resonates today.

O'Neill died of pneumonia, after suffering from a Parkinson's-like disease that rendered him physically unable to write for years.