C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien met at Oxford in 1926 and became two of the […]
Category: Literature
Stamps have long promoted writers, bringing a nation’s cultural heritage to the forefront. Great literature is forever, but often we need to be reminded of whose works were read by older generations.
Octavio Paz: Poet of Solitude and Communion
In 1990, when the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Octavio Paz, […]
George Bernard Shaw: Wit, Provocateur, and Reformer of the English Stage
Few writers have managed to be as consistently entertaining and as consistently annoying to their […]
Arthur C. Clarke: Prophet of the Space Age
Arthur C. Clarke spent his career doing something few writers ever manage: He predicted the […]
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Philologist Who Built a World
In January 1892, in Bloemfontein, in what was then the Orange Free State in southern […]
O. Henry: The Master of the Twist Ending, Immortalized on a Stamp
The stamp commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of O. Henry, the pen name […]
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Writer Who Made Science Fiction Literary
In 2021, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Forever stamp honoring Ursula K. Le Guin, […]
Bret Harte: The Voice of the Gold Rush on a $5 Stamp
Few writers captured the Wild West quite like Bret Harte. Born Francis Brett Hart in […]
Saul Bellow: Chicago’s Literary Conscience on a Postage Stamp
In 2024, the U.S. Postal Service added another giant of American letters to its Literary […]
José Rizal: The Pen That Freed a Nation
By the time José Rizal faced a Spanish firing squad on December 30, 1896, he […]
Jules Verne and the Novel That Launched a Literary Legend
The Man Who Dreamed in Steam and Stars There are writers who capture their era, […]
The Doctor Who Diagnosed a Revolution: Mariano Azuela and The Underdogs
A Man Between Two Worlds Mariano Azuela was born on January 1, 1873, in Lagos […]