Members of the Scribe

Sunday June 17th will be Montefiore day in Ramsgate, the faded seaside resort where Sir Moses and his wife Judith lived ...

For the past ten years I’ve been travelling the world in Moses Montefiore’s footsteps. This was a man who spent ...

Dr. Abigail Green’s new book, Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero, is now available.What makes a good biography? I thought ...

When you do anything creative – from writing stories to hooking rugs – people are likely to ask you where ...

Row 1: Adelaide Herrmann, magician and wife of Alexander Herrmann | Alexander Herrmann, the great magician and Julius’ cousin | ...

Gerald Kolpan‘s newest book, Magic Words: The Tale of a Jewish Boy-Interpreter, the World’s Most Estimable Magician, a Murderous Harlot, ...

These days, when people write a book, they invariably have an acknowledgments page, where they thank a few people or–like ...

Should I show my husband my work? My sister? My mother? Students sometimes ask me this. Go ahead, I say. ...

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

Several years ago at a writing conference, I was listening to a panel of agents and editors talk about how ...

I have been a writer for my whole adult life. I have only been a mother for five months. Like many ...

Maybe there are four or five people on earth for whom writing is effortless and never heartbreaking. I don’t know ...