Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize...

Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft...

WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST RELATED WORKFrom Charlie Jane Anders, the award-winning author of novels such as All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night, this is one...

Recounts a history of the English language from its Indo-European origins to the present.

Happy New Almanac Year! It's time to celebrate the 230th edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac! Long recognized as North America's most-beloved and best-selling annual, this handy yellow book fulfills...

An NPR Best Book of the YearThis national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how...

Sometimes it’s better to start small, with a sentence.Every English teacher has experienced it: students staring at an empty page, seemingly paralyzed by a writing assignment. When this happens, it...

Stephen King reflects on how his writing has helped him through difficult times and describes various aspects of the art of writing.

A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the YearIn 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first comprehensive English dictionary. Imagining he could complete the job in three...

"Write It! might be one of the friendliest poetry tool kits/notebooks ever."--Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People's Poet Laureate,Discover your creative voice and learn to write poetry in this easy-to-use...

Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper--and for decades Kate L. Turabian's Student's Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this...

For years Richard Lederer has entertained fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty patter. Now Lederer and Richard Dowis take readers on another journey...

From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the...

The definitive guide to getting your way, revised and updated with new material on writing, speaking, framing, and other key tools for arguing more powerfully “Cross Cicero with David Letterman and...

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the...

Six biographers describe what they learned about biography while working on the lives of Truman, Adams, Dickinson, Lippmann, Alice James, and Lyndon Johnson

A thorough, accessible guide to research, citation, and source evaluation, designed to assist students growing up in an era of social media, fake news, alternative facts, and information overload. Is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition, presents the best a college dictionary can offer, with all the user-friendly qualities that have distinguished the Webster’s New World name for...