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Portia's book is an unflinching and bravely honest account of her battle with eating disorders and dealing with her sexuality.

While traveling in southwest China, Emyr Pugh shot this picture of a master calligrapher. Master Weng, a retired literature teacher, was preparing to write a traditional blessing.

The Greek historian Plutarch wrote about Spartan generals who sent and received sensitive messages using a scytale. This is a thin cylinder made out of wood with which they performed transposition ciphers.

Jim Lehrer is stepping aside from his role as anchor for the PBS NewsHour, though he will still appear to moderate the weekly analysis of columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks.

For the past decade Stephen Hawking has used a voluntary twitch of his cheek muscle to compose words and sentences one letter at a time.

Daisaku Ikeda is a Buddhist leader, peace-builder, a prolific writer, poet, educator and founder of a number of cultural, educational and peace research institutions around the world.

Higher education titles help people burnish their credentials and get ahead. But instead of doing the work themselves, some careerists are employing ghostwriters to write their doctorates for them.

Haruki Murakami's magnum opus alternates between a young woman with a murderous avocation and a talented writer who are irresistibly drawn toward one another.

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Napoleon was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. He spent six years there writing his memoirs, before he died on May 1821 of a chronic stomach ailment.

Researchers have discovered regional dialects in the improvised shorthand of Twitter.