Dickens grew up in Amarillo, TX, with a tough childhood. His mother fell into drug addiction, which led him to be born two months premature. His father eventually left the family when Dickens was 13.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- "A Christmas Carol" is a holiday classic that was written nearly 200 years ago, but did you know it inspired some traditions we still have today? Author Charles Dickens has a ...

Ever wished you could travel back to the mean streets of Victorian London, the one described by the era’s most beloved writer, Charles Dickens? One place to start would be the townhouse at 48 Doughty ...

Charles Dickens loved puzzles. The British novelist, who died in 1870 at age 58, often wrote in a shorthand only he understood—he called it "the devil's handwriting" and a "savage stenographic mystery ...

Angel Studios’ new animated film The King of Kings is an unusual Biblical biopic that depicts the life of Jesus in the form of stories told by Charles Dickens – voiced by Kenneth Branagh – to his ...

Colorful caricatures from Charles Dickens' novels have become fixtures of our 21st-century imagination. There is the cunning Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist's swaggering pickpocket; David Copperfield's ...

The author Charles Dickens was widely known as one of the most popular for his time and is still one of the best-known authors today. Dickens worked several jobs before he started writing fiction. He ...

Fifty years was long enough, I suppose, to put off reading Charles Dickens again. I had read him, and loved him, in college—“Hard Times” and “Bleak House” and “Our Mutual Friend” were the most admired ...

It’s a pity that Bud Handelsman, who died in 2007, isn’t around to celebrate the two hundredth birthday of Charles Dickens. If Bud were alive, he would have celebrated it with a cartoon. Most people ...

Country music has lost one of its elder statesmen. Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens has passed away at the age of 94. According to a statement from his publicist, Dickens died of cardiac ...