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Betty Smith enchanted a generation of readers with 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' − even as she groused that she hoped Williamsburg would be flattened

No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.

How political novel 'The Gay Place' inspired Texan writers

Dawn Powell's Writing Has Been Rediscovered. What About Her Grave?

The satirist, who died in 1965, was buried in a potter’s field in the Bronx. Now some of her admirers are thinking about how to commemorate her.

10 Frightening Facts About Shirley Jackson's 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle'

Shirley Jackson is best remembered for “The Lottery” and 'The Haunting of Hill House,' but her gothic mystery 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle' is regarded as her greatest literary achievement.

'Colossally gifted writer': Remembering Cormac McCarthy, novelist of a darker America

New York Times: McCarthy's books explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.