Bryce Gibby puts readers in the cockpit with three legendary airmen in his triple biography Valiant Young Men: Heroes of Flight. A distinguished career pilot himself Gibby is well qualified to narrate some of the notable flight exploits... Read More

When we think of Black American operatic greats, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price and Paul Robeson usually come to mind. Few have heard of Ruby Pearl Elzy, until now. At age four, Elzy burst into song while attending church in her... Read More

Even people who don’t really like poetry have a favorite E.E. Cummings poem. Playful, idiosyncratic, and iconoclastically original, Cummings is unique, his work perhaps the most instantly recognized of all American poetry. Yet as this... Read More

Peter Demian Ouspensky (1878—1947) and George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (ca. 1877—1949), esoteric teachers of self-development, fascinated many 1920s—1940s intellectuals, including Huxley, Isherwood, Borges, Eliot, and Orage. They... Read More

The author’s interest in Katharine Hepburn began with an argument between his parents. His father wanted to see The Grapes of Wrath and his mother demanded to see The Philadelphia Story, starring Hepburn; his mother won out. Porter was... Read More

Frank and Joe Hardy have been solving mysteries as teenage detectives since 1926. The Hardy Boys books have sold more than fifty million copies, and new stories are being published today. Even the series’ first three books (The Tower... Read More

Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973) was, in many ways, a foremother and role model for contemporary professional women. The daughter of C.W. Post, an entrepreneur who made his fortune in pre-packaged foods, Marjorie’s earliest... Read More

In the introduction, Whitman scholar Robert MacIssac describes this book as “a dialogue of truth.” Less metaphorically, it is a three-part, two-person dramatization. The author is a poet and editor who founded the literary magazine,... Read More