/tags/writers writers en-US WLRN Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2023-11-15/for-its-40th-edition-the-miami-book-fair-is-a-homecoming-for-authors-and-book-lovers his year marks the 40th edition of the Miami Book Fair, a local institution that has attracted authors from around the world, bolstered emerging writers and kept Miami’s bookworms busy for decades Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:00:00 GMT /arts-culture/2023-11-15/for-its-40th-edition-the-miami-book-fair-is-a-homecoming-for-authors-and-book-lovers Amanda Rosa | Miami Herald /news/2022-06-27/authors-are-protesting-amazons-e-book-policy-that-allows-users-to-read-and-return Authors say readers are exploiting Amazon's seven-day return policy by using Amazon like a library and returning books after reading them. Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:00:54 GMT /news/2022-06-27/authors-are-protesting-amazons-e-book-policy-that-allows-users-to-read-and-return Deanna Schwartz /2019-12-25/songwriter-allee-willis-whose-work-spanned-friends-and-the-color-purple-dies Willis, 72, also worked with Earth, Wind & Fire. She says she learned from the band's Maurice White to "never let the lyric get in the way of the groove." Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:33:12 GMT /2019-12-25/songwriter-allee-willis-whose-work-spanned-friends-and-the-color-purple-dies Tanya Ballard Brown /npr-breaking-news/2019-08-06/toni-morrison-whose-soaring-novels-were-rooted-in-black-lives-dies-at-88 Morrison was the author of Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:47:00 GMT /npr-breaking-news/2019-08-06/toni-morrison-whose-soaring-novels-were-rooted-in-black-lives-dies-at-88 Karen Grigsby Bates /news/2017-07-31/going-home-to-a-place-theyve-never-been-cuba For a lot of first-generation Cuban-Americans, Cuba is almost a myth. Grandparents talk about it at family gatherings, always insisting the music, the… Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:05:35 GMT /news/2017-07-31/going-home-to-a-place-theyve-never-been-cuba /2016-10-25/novelist-paul-beatty-is-first-american-to-win-britains-man-booker-prize Beatty won for The Sellout, a satire hailed as hilarious about the fraught subject of race in the U.S. The competition was opened recently to any author writing in English and published in the U.K. Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:10:00 GMT /2016-10-25/novelist-paul-beatty-is-first-american-to-win-britains-man-booker-prize Lynn Neary /2016-10-03/for-literary-world-unmasking-elena-ferrante-is-not-a-scoop-its-a-disgrace An investigative journalist claims to have uncovered the true identity of a famously private novelist. Writers and readers alike have rejected the claims as an egregious, unnecessary intrusion. Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:21:00 GMT /2016-10-03/for-literary-world-unmasking-elena-ferrante-is-not-a-scoop-its-a-disgrace Camila Domonoske /news/2016-06-21/creating-space-for-writers-of-color-to-learn-from-each-other The Voices of Our Nation Arts foundation workshop kicked off this week at the University of Miami.VONA is a place for writers of color to hone their work… Tue, 21 Jun 2016 22:56:09 GMT /news/2016-06-21/creating-space-for-writers-of-color-to-learn-from-each-other /culture/2015-06-24/vona-junot-diaz-writing-workshop-moves-to-miami "What happens if a writer of color wants to write about white supremacy?" asks Junot Diaz, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who last year penned a New… Thu, 25 Jun 2015 01:28:24 GMT /culture/2015-06-24/vona-junot-diaz-writing-workshop-moves-to-miami /culture/2015-05-20/meg-cabot-returns-to-world-of-the-princess-diaries Writer Meg Cabot is best known for the Princess Diaries series, made famous by two movies starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. But she quit writing… Wed, 20 May 2015 21:48:24 GMT /culture/2015-05-20/meg-cabot-returns-to-world-of-the-princess-diaries Nancy Klingener