Growing up with a violent, alcoholic father, and its consequences–to the actress and her family.

A 1949 foretelling of Big Brother and doom.

Life With Elizabeth, Password, Mary Tyler Moore, and The Golden Girls. The actress’s 1987 memoir.

A biography about the peripatetic author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

A beautiful woman is kidnapped by a man from outer space; the author’s debut 1956 novel; published posthumously in 1979.

Every summer, four friends reunite to re-evaluate their lives.

The actress dispels her image of innocence.

After twenty years of marriage, an eccentric woman is abandoned by her husband.

The actor known mostly for playing “Thurston Howell” on Gilligan’s Island, and voicing “Mr. Magoo,” recalls his rise from Ohio to...

Two long-term friends exchange memories and meals.

The author re-constructs–in Annie Sullivan’s “voice”– the first month of their 49-year relationship.

An account of why the author’s grandparents decided to die together.