Bridgett M. Davis's first memoir, The World According to Fannie Davis, was not only selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice but also featured as a clue on the quiz show Jeopardy! In today's issue, though, Davis is the one answering questions, and along the way she highlights the remarkable full-circle moment that she once had with Louise Meriwether, who wrote her favorite book as a child... (continued)

Focus Features is hosting a Pride & Prejudice 20th Anniversary Ball in California on May 22 to celebrate Joe Wright's film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.

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The New York Public Library recommended "kids books honoring inspiring librarians."

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Open Culture examined "why the Romans stopped reading books."

Australian author Kerry Greenwood, best known for her Phryne Fisher murder mystery novels, died March 26 at age 70. Greenwood started writing fiction as a child, and wrote her first book--a fantasy novel titled The Magic Stone--as a teenager, the Guardian reported. She later studied English and law at the University of Melbourne, and worked as a criminal defense lawyer for Victorian Legal Aid for more than two decades.

Her enthusiasm for justice and writing infused Greenwood's Phryne Fisher novels, about a glamorous 1920s amateur detective, and her later Corinna Chapman series, about a mystery-solving baker in Melbourne.... (continued)