Tag: Women

2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel wins the Man Booker Prize…

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, published by HarperCollins in the UK, wins the Man Booker Prize. Mantel becomes the first woman ever to win the prize twice, having first won for Wolf Hall in 2009. More

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Tudor court seen as never before; this take on the Boleyn sisters reinvented the historical novel. More

Cammie McGovern

As the younger sister of an adored (sometimes overly perfect) sister, discovering Ramona and Beezus and the gang on Klikitat Street was a life-changer for me. More

Cammie McGovern

Their Eyes Were Watching God

One of the most widely read and acclaimed novels in the canon of African-American literature. More

Go Set a Watchman

This newly discovered novel from beloved author Harper Lee became the bestselling book of 2015. More

Diana Palmer

The first romance novel I ever read was Margaret Way’s Red Cliffs of Malpara. More

Diana Palmer

Lionel Shriver

Why I write: To find out what I think. More

Lionel Shriver

Caroline Overington

I read to observe the world as it is seen by others; to walk the planet as strangers do; to breathe a story that is not my own. More

Caroline Overington

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Multimillion-copy global bestseller that won critical acclaim for its beautifully wrought depiction of innocence corrupted. More

Just Kids

Legendary artist Patti Smith’s critically acclaimed memoir; winner of the National Book Award. More

1932: Laura Ingalls Wilder publishes Little House in the Big Woods…

Virginia Kirkus, inaugural department editor of Harper’s Department of Books for Boys and Girls, launches Laura Ingalls Wilder with the publication of Little House in the Big Woods. More

Jane Eyre

Brontë’s masterpiece of Gothic romance; a milestone title in the history of British feminist literature. More

Tracy Chevalier

I read because I want to know what it’s like to look at the world through someone else’s eyes, and reading is a remarkably efficient and vigorous way of doing that. More

Tracy Chevalier

Pushing the Boundaries of Children’s Literature

Children’s books explored uncharted territory in the mid-1960s as Harper & Row began to champion boundary-pushing children’s and young adult books. More

George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans, born in 1819, led a turbulent life that often broke with Victorian social norms. More

Victoria Aveyard

Reading, writing, and story have always been my gateway. More

Victoria Aveyard

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

The beloved multimillion-copy-selling British picture book no childhood should be without. More

Wolf Hall

Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. More

Prince Charles reading a Harlequin Mills & Boon title

Prince Charles checks out The Pirate by Jayne Ann Krentz, a Harlequin Mills & Boon title, at the library in Perth, Scotland, in 1995. More

Robin Preiss Glasser

Robin Preiss Glasser

Veronica Roth

I read because reading changes you. More

Veronica Roth

Robyn Carr

Writing changes me, teaches me, broadens me, and makes me more aware. More

Robyn Carr

Anne O’Brien

Writing about medieval women is compulsive. More

Anne O’Brien

1937: Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God is published…

J. B. Lippincott publishes Zora Neale Hurston’s masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God. More

How Harlequin Became Romance

When Richard H.G. Bonnycastle, a former Arctic explorer with the Hudson Bay Company, launched Harlequin Books in Winnipeg in 1948, he had little interest in building a publishing empire around romance novels. More

Bel Canto

Patchett’s critically acclaimed novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction. More

Meg Cabot

I write because of readers like Diana Moreno, who handed me a letter recently telling me that, as the firstborn daughter of immigrants, she felt lonely and shy when she arrived here in 2004 . . . until she found my books. More

Meg Cabot