Psychotic episodes, uncontrollable symptoms, and casually callous care. Life in a state mental institution for Sylvia Frumkin, a schizophrenic. Winner...

A woman with 17 different personalities is re-integrated by her psychiatrist; Sally Field and Joanne Woodward starred in the 1976...

A complex biography about the poet and her confidante/editor.

Four essays written by the doctor/author while he was dying.

Immigrant struggle; alienation, loneliness and frustration; stories that caused a sensation in the 1920s.

A former writer for the "Village Voice," the author–in a series of essays––makes the argument for re-visiting and celebrating-- The...

Revolutionary Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century from the viewpoint of its citizens, and American expatriates.

Nightlife in Europe; bullfights in Spain, and disillusionment after the conclusion of World War I.

The original version of "To Kill a Mockingbird" before the intervention of the author’s editor.

The 1930s adventures of an immigrant Norwegian family in San Francisco that inspired the play, I Remember Mama.

A “conventional” wife and mother catapults into a successful garden columnist; winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize.

Depression, near-suicide, and success; Sinatra, Berlin, Monroe; The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie, and a late-in-life writing career...