The author's agent-husband gets her the literary fame she covets--despite years of secret, serious illness.

A husband's suicide, rejection from the showbiz industry, bankruptcy and rebound.

A look into the thoughts of Colin Powell and Dick Cheney during the first Bush Administration.

A perfectly proper English nanny disrupts a staid household.

A St. Bernard is abducted, beaten, and sent to the Yukon.

Brand new to her school, a teacher discovers troubled students–and teachers.

Widow; long-reigning Louisiana congresswoman; ambassador to the Vatican.

A little girl remembers the presidential family with love.

An acclaimed child star grows into an early activist for HIV/AIDS.

After Washington DC: careers from Harry Truman through Bill Clinton.

Portraits of women who influenced the playwright.

The talented–and promising–writer, Nathan Zuckerman, becomes fascinated with a woman at the house of his idol, author, E.I. Lonoff.