Product Description: "Thornton Wilder: A Life brings readers face to face with the extraordinary man who made words come alive around the world, on the stage and on the page." —James Earl Jones, actor"Comprehensive and wisely fashioned….This book is a splendid and long needed work...read more

Product Description: Samuele, an American student in Rome after the First World War, is drawn into the declining period of a titular secret community, composed of decaying European royalty, eccentric expatriate Americans and a cardinal.

In The Cabala, a group of idiosyncratic women and a Catholic cardinal in post World War I Italy find their lives transformed by the arrival of Samuele, a young American, while The Woman of Andros focuses on Chrysis, a beautiful courtesan, and her interactions with a variety of characters on the remote Greek island of Byrnos prior to the birth of Christ. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: You can accomplish anything you can dream if you get someone else to do it! is the personal mission statement and secret weapon of the irrepressible R. Philip Hanes. A dynamic and visionary entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist whose CV includes posts at the National Endowment of the Arts and the Smithsonian, Hanes packs at least 10 lifetimes' worth of experience and achievement into a memoir of his first 80 years...read more

Product Description: Not since 1929 has there been a biography of Edward Steichen, photographer, painter, and a pivotal yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century art and culture on two continents. Steichen, who died just short of his ninety-fourth birthday, was fifty and internationally famous when Steichen the Photographer was written by his brother-in-law, the poet and biographer Carl Sandburg...read more

At forty-four, the author decides to revitalize herself by learning to swim, and finds in the experience an extended metaphor for living her life, which she chronicles in this remarkable, inspiring book about the passage of middle age. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History. Jr Lib Guild.

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Product Description: The Official Guidebook

A Tony Award-winning actor describes his parental abandonment as an infant, the severe stutter that caused him to retreat into silence for four years, his college years, and his theatrical successes. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Granted accesss to more than 50,000 papers in the Sandburg Collection in Connemara, North Carolina, Niven chronicles Sandburg from his birth in 1878 to immigrant parents, through the years when he struggled to find his identity, into his maturity and fame...read more