Writers John Green and Rebecca Makkai gave advice on fiction writing in Cahn Auditorium Saturday as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Green and Makkai, both fiction authors, discussed their handling...

Rebecca Makkai is a professor teaching prose and poetry in Northwestern’s School of Professional Studies. She is the author of “The Great Believers,” which was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize...

Before receiving the 2019 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction on Sunday, Rebecca Makkai, a Chicago-based author, spoke in-depth about her experiences as a writer and how her award-winning novel...