Maya Angelou was a luminous presence on the American cultural stage, writing, dancing, acting and speaking from her great belief in langua...

Juliette, born in 1912 of Egyptian and Turkish Jews, in Manchester, England, was brought up in wealthy circumstances. When the puppies her...

When we first meet Bathsheba Everdene, she is a spirited country girl, thrilled with the life around her and excited by her own independence...

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet, born in 1911. Her father died when she was a baby and her mother was institutionalized shortly th...

Few 20 th century heroines are as attractive as Sachiko Makioka. Though little happens to her in The Makioka Sisters , by Junichiro Tanizak...

Ernest, Hadley, Jack, Austria 1925 Though I have loved Ernest Hemingway’s writing since I was a young person, I have never been able to ...

O'Keeffe by Ansel Adams, 1937 Everyone thinks they know the story of Georgia O’Keeffe. It is only when you learn the actual details...