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U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who later fought and was exterminated with his entire command by warring Sioux and Cheyenne tribes at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.

"The perennial question asked of all authors is How do you write? What do they require of their room or desk? Do they have favourite pens, paper or typewriters? And have they found the perfect daily routine to channel their creativity? Crossing centuries, continents and genres, A...

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is considered Virginia Woolf's most autobiographical novel. In this groundbreaking work, she set out to describe her most deeply felt memories, to sum up the layers of feeling surrounding the death of her parents. How to express the powerful effects that dista...

Dive into the drama and action of the American Revolution in The Devil's Disciple , George Bernard Shaw's only play set entirely on U.S. soil. The protagonist, Richard Dudgeon, is a misfit and self-proclaimed "devil's disciple," but when the chips are down, he displays a level o...

Delve into a hilarious examination of Victorian love, manners, morals, and marriage written by the author of Pygmalion . In Candida , George Bernard Shaw gives us the story of the misbegotten love triangle that springs up between a reverend, his putatively prim and proper wife,...

"Inspired by the discovery of long-overlooked interviews conducted just before his death, this is the first biography of the visionary fashion designer Charles James. Christian Dior described him as the inspiration for the "New Look." Salvador Dalí called his work "soft sculptur...

Born illegitimate on New York's Upper West Side, with nothing to recommend her but blonde good looks and a ferocious intelligence, she used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction and drama. At ten, Clare Boothe ...

May Yohe was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English Lord who owned the fabled Hope diamond--one of the most valuable objects in the world and now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. May was a ro...

***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction*** "What's more American than Corn Flakes?" -Bing Crosby From the much admired medical historian ("Markel shows just how compelling the medical history can be"-Andrea Barrett) and author of An Anatomy of Addict...