Virginia Wright (born Virginia Brown, 1958) is a contemporary author of both fiction and non-fiction, celebrated in children’s literature. Wright’s passion for writing was already manifest as a child.  She remembers sitting around the veranda, perpetually playing with words on her...

“I ought to make a good author.  I certainly have the ambition and the ideas, but have I the power to carry it through? Yes.” – Katherine Mansfield (1907)   Died at age 34, Katherine Mansfield of New Zealand spent most of her life writing short stories. Her first published pieces...

  Once known in America for being the editor of New York Evening Host, William Cullen Bryant was also one of the greatest poets of his time. Guided by his father, he had written brilliant verses at a young age. He made a metrical paraphrase of some verses in the bible at age...