biography

Explores the effects of illness on raising three children and on his relationship with his wife, Meredith Vieira.

A biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian Nobel Laureate for Literature, covering all the major periods of his life, from childhood to his years in the Stalinist labor camps, his struggle against censorship, his exile in 1974, and his return to Russia after the fall of Communism.

A biography of ninteenth-century Russian author Anton Chekhov, drawing from documents and letters from Chekhov's lovers, friends, and family members to tell the story of his early life, his marriage, his struggle to choose a career, and his battle with tuberculosis.