Introduce Maya Angelou with a short video that provides viewers with an overview of her many accomplishments and some of her papers collected at Wake Forest Library.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written to expose the evils of slavery. Published in 1852 by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to demonstrate the terrors and reality of slavery African Americans were experiencing. The interesting resource...

An interview sheds light on author Julia Alvarez's immigration journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States of America. Alvarez describes in detail how she felt creating a new home, what it was like to return to the Dominican...

In the midst of darkness, there's hope. A video lesson shares key themes found in Kurt Vonnegut's writing, including the idea of hope in darkness. After watching the video, viewers take a short quiz to test their understanding, answer...

How much do you know about the life of Charles Dickens? A thorough video discusses the author's professional successes and private failures with engaging animation and informative narration.

Libraries may have been locked to women for centuries, but writers like Virginia Woolf were instrumental in opening the doors for other female authors. Learn more about Woolf's place in the modernist age and her voice in the literary...

A good reader thinks about the author's purpose while reading a book. Students use the acronym P.I.E. to remind them how to think about author's purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.

Identifying the theme of a piece is crucial to understanding. Using the play Romeo and Juliet as an example, the concept of theme is explored in a video of a classroom lecture.

Great interview audio of Art Buchwald and Don Swain. Among other things the two discuss politics, NYC and the media. Includes portrait photo.

Meet Clubhouse Expert, Tim Reed, author and illustrator of My Very Silly Monster children's book series. This clip shows the tools he uses for illustrating his books and talks about the highlights of being an author. He also teaches the...

This site shares an interview with the creators of the Magic Treehouse series. It has been twenty years since the first Magic Tree House book was published! In honor of this milestone, Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne and Natalie Pope...

National Public Radio presents a feature on Tennessee Williams' famous play.

The Nobel Prize site offers a transcript of the speech William Faulkner gave after accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.

Max Gladstone is a fantasy author best known for the Craft Sequence. He explains the role an agent plays in the publishing process. [3:50]

A series of 16 instructional videos, each about 30 minutes in length, designed to introduce authors in various genres. Topics include Native Voices, Exploring Borderlands, Utopian Promise, Spirit of Nationalism, Masculine Heroes, gothic...

Real Audio archive recording of Terry Gross interviewing the novelist Doris Lessing, May 31, 1988 on the subject of marriage.