There is no shortage of famous and incredibly talented writers who hail from Massachusetts, or at least spent a good deal of time there and used this time to inspire their works.

MacKenzie Scott’s philanthropy is often described through numbers and her connection to Amazon. But beyond the scale of her wealth—and her role in building a global company—her giving reflects ...

Are you ready for it? Students in a brand-new English class certainly are. Taught by DeWitt Wallace Professor of English and Creative Writing James Dawes, “Emily Dickinson and Taylor Swift” provides ...

When Emily Dickinson wrote the poem “Hope is that thing like feathers” in 1861, she couldn’t have imagined a world like we have today, so desperately in need of hope. Yet it is a modern-day reminder ...