DC Authors

Once you know who wrote the play, there's little doubt about whether Dear Jack, Dear Louise has a happy ending. The playwright — Ken Ludwig, one of DC’s most prolific and most produced comedic theater writers — is the younger son of the…

“This is the city and I am one of the citizens,” Walt Whitman declared in his signature poem Song of Myself. “Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools, … real estate and personal estate.” …

"Music heals the soul," Maurice Jackson said recently at Busboys and Poets in Takoma Park. Jackson is one of the editors, along with Blair A. Ruble, of DC Jazz, a collection of essays that surveys the city's long history with the most…