Now in paperback: The first comprehensive biography of the American cultural giant who changed popular theater and dance forever with her choreography for Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Brigadoon.

Nash probes the enigma of Savitch's troubled personality and the glamorous world of network news that led to her accidental death in 1983. The extraordinary saga of a ferociously driven woman who battled drug dependency and neuroses to become one of the most respected news anchors in America at the age of 30. 16 photos.

Based on the author's exclusive interviews with Jean Harris, as well as with Harris's and Tarnower's friends and families, this account examines the multifarious emotional entanglements that exploded the night Herman Tarnower was shot

"Among the numerous diaries published recently as scholars probe women's history, Farnsworth's is a real find." -- Sally Mitchell "The publication now of books like Martha Farnsworth's has contributed to radical revisions of women's history and reassessment of women's skills as writers." -- Elizabeth Hampsten ..". superb edition of the diary of Kansas pioneer Martha Farnsworth... a fact-filled, revealing account of an extraordinary-but-ordinary woman... " -- American Quarterly ..". the inside story of a women's life in the middle of America... " -- Bloomsbury Review A Kansas teacher, housewife, photographer, and suffragist, Martha Farnsworth compulsively recorded her life in middle America during a period of tremendous social and cultural change.

A poignant autobiography describes growing up in Carson City, Nevada, during the 1970s, the shattering effects of tragedy--loss, loneliness, mistreatment--on her family, and her own indomitable will to survive.

Autobiografisch relaas van de speurtocht van een Australische vrouw naar haar Aborigine-afkomst.

The eminent playwright recalls his long, active, and colorful life from his birth to a newly prosperous family and Depression boyhood through his development as a writer, his marriage, and his controversial political activities

Letters trace the friendship between Stein and Wilder from late 1934 until Stein's death in 1946

The author recounts how she was arrested after being falsely accused of treason and placed in a Nazi prison while awaiting a certain death sentence

Focuses on the development of the author's inner life

'My father was shot by a terrorist. I spent the next decade hunting down the shooter. And when I found him...I tried to set him free' In 1986, Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO. He lived, but as he recovered, Blumenfeld's desire for revenge grew. Travelling to Europe, the United States and the Middle East, Blumenfeld gathers avengers' stories as she plots to infiltrate the shooter's life. Through interviews with Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, members of the Albanian Blood Feud Committee, the chief of the Iranian judiciary, the mayor of Palermo, and Egyptian heroin smuggler, the Israeli prime minister and the military chief of staff, priests, sports fans, teenaged girls and prostitutes, she explores the mechanics and psychology of vengeance. Ultimately her journey leads her home, where she confronts her childhood, her parents' failed marriage, and her ideas about family. And in the end, her target turns out to be more complex and in some ways more threatening than the adversary she had long imagined. REVENGE is the story of family, loyalty, and home; of the private passions behind public events; and of the thin red line between love