This biography traces how a boy who struggled in school and lost his mother at eight managed to make up for early acade…
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O. Henry, with his characteristic humor, once wrote, “The art of storytelling is to conceal everything people are eager to know until you’ve laid out your cherished views on unrelated…
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Kipling—who held multiple honorary doctorates—was no ordinary storyteller. A fellow of the Royal Literary Society and a foreign member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, he received honorary…
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Jack London published more works than even Hans Christian Andersen. He burst onto the literary scene after a life shaped by hardship and a deep hunger for adventure. Fame ……
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140 years ago, a French woman was born whose compatriots would call Art de Vivre – “the art of living.” She was a mistress, a collaborator, and an exile; never…
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Her books have sold more than 4 billion copies, ranking her only behind the Bible and Shakespeare. More than seventy of her detective novels have been translated into over a…
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Not every actor’s life becomes the stuff of films. Elizabeth Taylor’s did. She lived and worked in front of the camera until the end of her days and never stopped…
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A biography of the remarkable sculptor, painter, architect, thinker, and poet was published during his lifetime—an unprecedented move in Western European art. Alongside his masterpieces, documentary evidence of his 89-year…
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The creator of “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Snow Queen,” “Thumbelina,” “The Princess and the Pea,” “The Tinderbox,” “The Steadfast Tin Soldier,” and “Ole-Luk-Oie” was a master storyteller…
