Mary Austin, 1906, Huntington Library Born in Illinois in 1868, it is Mary Austin’s understanding of how people are affected by their en...

Lois Rosenthal, Philanthropist (my image of Nedra) "Nedra was working in the kitchen, her rings set aside. She was tall, preoccupie...

Doris Lessing by Godfrey Argent, 1969 Martha is the main protagonist of a five-novel series called The Children of Violence [published...

Annie Dillard At 23, Lou Bigelow meets Toby Maytree in Provincetown. He sees her first on a bicycle, “A red scarf, white shirt, skin cle...

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...