(CNN)Say “doomsday bunker” and most people would imagine a concrete room filled with cots and canned goods. The threat of global annihilation may feel as present as it did during the Cold War, but today’s high-security shelters could not be more different from their 20th-century counterparts. A number of companies around the world are meeting … Continued
(CNN)Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the prolific children’s book author who wrote a devastating “Modern Love” column about her soon-to-be-widower husband, died in her home in Chicago on Monday from ovarian cancer. She was 51. “Everything Amy did was life and love affirming,” Amy Rennert, her longtime literary agent and friend, said in a statement to CNN. … Continued
(CNN)Writers sometimes travel far from home to find inspiration, or even the freedom to express themselves. Others are so closely associated with a place that it’s hard to know whether the city left its mark on an author, or if it was the other way around. Here are 23 writers whose words helped define a … Continued