Eugene O'Neill, the Irish playwright known for his works Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Iceman Cometh had some history in Boston - and in fact, he's buried in Jamaica Plain.

Nathaniel Hawthorne set his "Legends of the Province House" stories in the real Province House, once located in downtown Boston.

There is a room that exists in this city, a room that once was a place of creation, lyrical exploration, and the pursuit of turning desire and humanity into words and phrases. In fact, the room still exists. It is Room 222.

William Lloyd Garrison was a Boston writer and printer whose publication The Liberator served as the voice of the anti-slavery campaign.

This week is Commencement at Harvard University, so in honor of this joyous occasion we bring you one of the most well-known commencement speeches given: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Divinity School Address”

On January 29, 1887 The Club of Odd Volumes was formed on Mr. Vernon Street in Beacon Hill, with the objectives being “…to promote an interest in, and a love for whatever will tend to make literature attractive as given in the form of printed and illustrated volumes, to mutally assist in making researches and collections of first and rare editions, and to promote elegance in the production of Odd Volumes.”

Lasting only three issues, the literary magazine The Pioneer was published by Fireside Poet James Russell Lowell, with his friend Robert Carter, in 1843.

What are the forgotten chapters of Boston's literary history? This exhibit gives a glimpse into some of the possibly known, and unknown moments in Boston's literary past.

The Town House thus became the centre of the printing publishing and book selling business of the town. About thirty booksellers were located in its immediate vicinity some of their shops being under the Town House itself others opposite either on the street in which the Town House stood or on the Corn Hill between Prison Lane and the meeting house which stood where the Rogers Building on Washington Street now stands.

What happens when you get Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes together for a meeting of the Saturday Club at the Parker House? Why, they create a magazine called The Atlantic Monthly, of course!

In honor of Children’s Book Week, today we’re featuring THE children’s book of Boston: Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey.

Happy Birthday, Cotton Mather! One of the earliest Boston writers was born this day in 1663.

Check out this clip of actor Mark Ruffalo reading a portion of Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” (published in Boston in 1849). It’s interesting to see how much Thoreau’s words ring true today.

The holiday season has finally passed, and I guarantee most of us read or watched some kind of iteration of A Christmas Carol. Could you imagine actually going to hear Charles Dickens do a reading of the novella himself?