A socialite lobotomizes her niece to protect family secrets.

Fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar; editor-in-chief at Vogue; the Met.

Prisoners revolt during a hunger strike, while a romance brews between a warden and an inmate.

A biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens; Mark Twain’s wife.

An impoverished student commits two murders and confesses.

Socialite; activist; and Harry Truman’s Ambassador to Luxembourg, she was the Hostess with the Mostest.

Two boys form an intense friendship at a New England boarding school.

A serviceman in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps of WW I comes of age.

Two men find end-of-life companionship in a California nursing home; non-fiction.

A white journalist darkens his skin, temporarily, to experience life in the segregated South.

1920s America; stories about Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and other forgotten events.

After the assassination attempt on President James Garfield, his physician botches the recovery.