Product Description: One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Translated into dozens of languages, Tintin's adventures have sold millions of copies. Yet, despite Tintin's enduring popularity, Americans know almost nothing about his gifted creator, Georges Remi--better known as Hergé...read more

Product Description: "The extraordinary life of a courageous, outspoken American woman who survived forty years of upheaval in twentieth-century China . . . A unique perspective on a period of -critical transformations in China."—Kirkus Reviews "Reads like a riveting and complex novel...read more

A powerful memoir follows Grace Divine, who, in 1932, despite interracial marriage laws, her family's opposition, and the constraints of society, married Liu Fu-chi, a Chinese scholarship student, and then eventually moved to China where she witnessed the Japanese Occupation, the fall of the Nationalist government, and the Communist and Cultural Revolutions.

The late author of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling presents a monumental biography, a quarter century in the making, of labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, founder of the International Workers of the World and the American Socialist Party. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Features interviews with noted American writers, including Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Joseph Heller, Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, Paul Theroux, and others