Danny Heitman

Looking back at a great writer

Bacon wrote canonical essays, steeped in realism and insight, but his true legacy may rest with the sciences 

Six days a week for almost three decades, the pioneering first lady explored what it’s like to be an American

More than fifty years after his death, author C. S. Lewis still has a diverse array of devoted readers

Englishman Samuel Johnson’s work helped define the English language for readers on both sides of the Atlantic

Her zingers still zing

The great writer from Kentucky (and former Jefferson Lecturer) is published in the Library of America

Samuel Pepys’s journals bear witness to events large and small . . . and to his own despicable treatment of women.

The poet in his final years | Posted April 17, 2019