To some people, the idea of a pen name seems kind of weird. If I, a writer, am going to put countless hours of hard work and thought into my masterpiece, why wouldn’t I want to put my own name underneath the title? But some of literature's biggest names, from Mark Twain to Dr. Seuss, aren't their real names. Here's why.
To understand Beloved, we must first look at the author: Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison.
We explore the roots, tenets of the genre, and its rise in Latin American Literature.
His legacy is more complicated than school books may have lead us to believe.
