1902-

Examines the lives of Barbara McClintock, Maria Mayer, Rosalyn Yalow, and Rita Levi-Montalcini, women scientists who won the Nobel Prize against extraordinary odds, in different fields and under different circumstances.

Comprehensive book on musical collaborators Rogers and Hammerstein tracing all their efforts including lesser known shows.

Presents the life and career of the geneticist who spent many years studying the cells of maize and in 1983 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Blues guitarist Honeyboy Edwards looks back on his life, telling of his upbringing as a sharecropper's son, his years as a hobo during the Depression, and his travels throughout the country as an intinerant bluesman, playing in the hot towns of Memphis, Chicago, and New Orleans.

A biography of the Negro concert artist who ultimately triumphed in her struggle for recognition.

This book is a selection of representative examples of Ansel Adams' National Park Service Photographs.