A recently concluded auction at Nate D. Sanders Auctions saw the sale of 1935 letter penned by Ernest Hemingway describing the vicious battle for a blue marlin at sea that… Read more »

For fifty years, Beat poet Gerd Stern has been blamed for discarding a letter that Jack Kerouac described as “the greatest piece of writing I ever saw,” a move that… Read more »

Pussy Galore, Holly Goodhead, Chew Mee… the names of female characters in James Bond novels tell you a great deal about the author Ian Fleming’s attitudes to women: he thought… Read more »

Mark Twain, famous man of letters, wit, white suit and cigar smoke, whose whiskered face will soon adorn commemorative coins, was also a loving father, and his daughter Susy often benefited… Read more »