Some of the most beloved characters in literary history did not spring entirely from a writer's imagination. They were ...

The world may be completely swoony over The Avengers and the X-Men now, but, for most of us, our first real superheroes came in the form of Tom Sawyers and Pippi Longstalkings. Tom's bold ...

Literature is full of larger-than-life characters. From Glinda the Good Witch to Sherlock Holmes, they don't exactly seem like people you'd encounter just walking around town — but many writers over ...

“As she walked along to-day, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes…a thick cable of twisted dark hair ...

Characters in books don't play very many video games, do they? The classic literary figures get a pass because they were conceived decades or centuries before computers were invented - the authors can ...