Product Description: Olivia Langdon was born into what became the richest family in Elmira, New York, in 1845, and was one of the first females in the country to attend a college. But her life became extraordinary when she married Mark Twain in 1870. As the wife of the man who was destined to become the best known, and perhaps best loved, American in the world, she would befriend the literary elite of America and Europe, travel around the globe, and dine with royalty...read more

Product Description: Harold Robbins s steamy books were once more widely read than the Bible. His novels sold more than 750 million copies and created the sex-power-glamour genre of popular literature that would go on to influence authors from Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann to TV shows like Dallas and Dynasty...read more

Recounts the life of the capricious southern belle who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife

In 1982, after years of working in advertising in Oklahoma, Jann Stapp took a job as the personal assistant to the world's bestselling author, Harold Robbins. Like those he portrayed in his novels, Harold Robbins lived life hard, fast, and occasionally out-of-control. He was a larger-than-life figure, and he let those around him know it. Young Jann didn't know what she was walking into--but she loved every minute of it. Jann and Harold Robbins were married in 1992. Harold and Me is the chronicle of the last fifteen years of Harold Robbins' life. Harold was a natural storyteller and Jann absorbed his stories with awe and admiration. Just like his characters, his life was a rollercoaster ride of pride, drama, and intensity, and Jann tells his story--and theirs--with vividness and love.  

A memoir by the wife of the iconic American writer describes their meeting in 1955 as teenagers, the two-year correspondence that led to their marriage, and their nomadic existence in the wake of Carver's numerous teaching posts before settling in California. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

In a memorable, often whimsical tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the best-selling author of a Heckuva Job and Remembering Denny celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in the author's life.

Product Description: Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic and trusted advisor. She read his letters and speeches. He relied on her judgment on his writing, and readily admitted that she not only edited his work, but also edited his public persona...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description:  Sophia Peabody Hawthorne is known almost exclusively in her role as the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who portrayed her as the fragile, ethereal, infirm “Dove.” That image, invented by Nathaniel to serve his needs and affirm his manhood, was passed on by his biographers, who accepted their subject’s perception without question...read more

Product Description: In the 1920s, the playwright Sidney Howard and his wife, actress Clare Eames, were at the heart of the movement to change the American theater from a commercial enterprise to one with art at its center. Sidney gained fame writing They Knew What They Wanted (which won the Pulitzer Prize) in 1924...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Collects photographs, news clippings, and other memorabilia from the Fitzgeralds' own scrapbooks with excerpts from their writings.

Drawn from previously undisclosed information, a fascinating new perspective into the tumultuous marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, prominent figures of the literary and theatrical worlds, details their complex relationship, which eventually resulted in his becoming an incurable alcoholic and her descent into madness. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

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Jack London's stories of adventure in the frozen landscapes of the Yukon and the steamy islands of the South Seas have captured the imaginations of readers all over the world. Born into the working class, London was a major force in the lively Socialist movement of his day. In 1903 he shocked the morals of his country when he left his wife and two young daughters for a spunky spinster five years his senior. A new breed of woman, Charmian Kitteridge was notorious in the Bay area for daring to ride her horse astride and work in an office, unlike proper women of the day. As his "Mate-Woman," Charmian contributed to Jack's accomplishments -- she was his editor, transcriber, confidante, as well as the model for many of Jack's female characters. Together they overcame threats to their love that stemmed from Jack's alcoholism, infidelities, and illness. This is a compelling portrait that challenges the long"Cheld view of London as a rough, hard-drinking womanizer, and of Charmian as a passive, childish dependent. Instead, this is a love story and a fascinating portrait of a couple whose courage, passion, and vitality remain a model of love fulfilled. (view table of contents)

The long-time wife of the best-selling author reveals the debauchery behind the literary facade, in a tell-all account of a twenty-eight-year marriage marked by money, power, and sexual excess that mirrored the writer's often titillating work.

Product Description: This is a new edition of the autobiography of Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair (1883-1961). She started life innocently and happily on her father's Mississippi Delta plantation but went on to know deprivation and danger when she married Upton Sinclair, the crusading social activist...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Depression that follows the 1929 stock market crash is emptying Paris of many American expatriates. Two exceptions are Dorothy and James T. Farrell, the naïve young couple who have fled their home in Chicago for the fabled liberation that Paris seems to offer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Edith's memoir is short but packed with rich descriptive memories. It's written in sort of a free form with one memory sparking another later memory as Edith describes Una's love of nature and English bulldogs, the heartbreak of losing her firstborn, the trials of motherhood raising twin boys, economically keeping her home and inspiring not only Robinson, but all who entered her life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A full account of Adele Mailer's volatile marriage to Noramn Mailer a marriage that spanned drug binges, sexual license, and wild parties.

Product Description: Passionate readers both, Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain courted through books, spelling out their expectations through literary references as they corresponded during their frequent separations. Working with Langdon's own letters and diaries as well as Twain's, Harris traces the progress of their courtship within the larger context of Victorian American culture, showing how the couple negotiated their relationship through the mediums of literature, material culture, and social and familial dynamics...read more

A woman who, during the Beat scene of the 1950s, defied social constraints and married black poet-playwright Leroi Jones chronicles her family's turbulent journey through the 1960s, confronting racism and sexism along the way