It examined how the popularity, in Elizabethan England, of the Roman writer's tragedies influenced Shakespeare's writing - and was due to be republished in 1957, prompting Eliot to contact his friend.

BBC: TS Eliot

"I don't like writing essays for English therefore I won't like writing for the Writer's Club" was a very similar attitude to "I don't like "Glee" therefore I won't like anything to do with Chris Colfer".

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Writer and researcher Jone Johnson Lewis, writing on the website Women's History, has told of female resistance fighters on the Channel Islands wearing men's clothes to disguise themselves while posting flyers stirring opposition to German occupation.

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His writing sends a certain message: He's a fast writer, but he cares about legibility at the same time, he says.

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But William Randolph Hearst III has also inherited some of his Grandfather's literary genes.(Despite the Yellow Journalist tag, Hearst the First was undeniably a heckuva writer.) Under Will Hearst's stewardship, the Examiner enjoyed a reputation for fine, punchy writing and he even wrote the forward to a book about a 19th-century comic strip called Hogan ' s Alley.

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"Rushdie liberated the Indian writer from propagandist stuff and self-conscious writing, " says Khushwant Singh, one of India's best-known authors.

CNN: The New Masters