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Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story

June 8, 2020 By Jenny Farrell

Dickens never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts and that the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a blackening...

Legado de intelectual chilena Marta Harnecker

June 18, 2019 By Fuentes Combinadas

Marta Harnecker acompañó las luchas de liberación de los pueblos del mundo como maestra, socióloga y luchadora social.

Patricia McKissack, author of African-American children’s books, dies

April 12, 2017 By Combined Sources

“To me, reading is like breathing; both are essential to life.”—Patricia C. McKissack

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel laureate, activist, dies

July 16, 2014 By Christopher Torchia

Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1991 for novels that explored the complex relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa.

Farley Mowat: Writer, socialist and environmentalist

May 23, 2014 By John Green

Canadian author Farley Mowat, who died on May 12, wrote with humour, keen perception and passionate social commitment, completing over 40 books and numerous articles.