The prolific Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen died 150 years ago, yet fairy tales like "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling" still move readers to this day. Hans Christian Andersen was a ...

Every Little Mermaid Halloween costume, every reference to “Ugly Duckling Syndrome,” and every use of “the Emperor’s New Clothes” as an idiom ultimately has its roots in the fairy tales of Hans ...

His fairy tales are part of our cultural fabric, but “The Little Match Girl” still haunts me. An 1849 illustration for “The Little Match Girl” from the first American edition of “Hans Andersen’s Story ...

Beloved writers are like lenient jailers—they let their creations sneak off the page and roam at large through our imagination. Most writers are lucky to grant such freedom to one character, a ...

His oddball stories were driven by his outsider status and strange appearance. By Frances Wilson There once was an ugly duckling, so despised by the other birds that he fled the farm to explore the ...

Has any great writer waited as long as Hans Christian Andersen has to be taken seriously? His fame is universal, and his contributions to Western culture can be seen all around us on an almost daily ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fine Art Society, London, June 4-July 2, 2008. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source ...