Wars of Ink and Paper: 9 Feuds That Rocked the Literary World: Media
May the battle of wits begin.
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In 1924 the fencer Aldo Nadi (right) challenged the newspaper writer and sometime...
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American author and critic Mary McCarthy at her office desk in Paris, June 1967.
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Lillian Hellman sitting at her desk in her office. She sued Mary McCarthy in...
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John Keats, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Severn, 1821; in the National Portrait...
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Lord Byron on Shore of the Hellenic Sea, oil on canvas by Giacomo Trécourt,...
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Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill at his Black and White Ball, 1966.
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Novelist William Faulkner was known for baroque fiction that created a rich social...
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Ernest Hemingway at Shimoni Camp, Kenya, 1954.
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In the 1930s Zora Neale Hurston published some of her most acclaimed works, including...
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Poet, playwright, and novelist Langston Hughes was a giant of the Harlem Renaissance,...
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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa published acclaimed novels that blend realism...
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