correspondence

More than 300 pieces of correspondence, taken from 7,000 that were gathered around the world, provide insight into Pulitzer Prize winning author Thornton Wilder's life and the people he connected with, including his family, Walt Disney, FDR, Elizabeth Taylor, Ernest Hemingway, Leonard Bernstein and more. The letters are presented chronologically and follow a brief biographical introduction to Mr. Wilder.

"A first publication of the ... writer's personal correspondences includes ... teenage reports of her 1880s Red Cloud life, letters written during her early journalism years and the 1940s exchanges penned in observation of World War II and her own struggles with aging"-- Publishers description.

Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.

Life of Louisa May Alcott is revealed through with more than 260 annotated letters and over fifty photographs, many published for the first time.

Contains ten letters written by poet Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kappus, a student at a Vienna military academy who asked Rilke for criticism and advice about his own poetic efforts.

Collection of letters from 1926 to 1981 from the philosopher and author Ayn Rand to a variety of famed authors, journalists, and politicians revealing key moments in her life while offering a look into her thoughts on writing, America, the Soviet Union, politics, and most of all, objectivism, a school of thought she created out of her life's experiences.

Provides insight into the life of Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston through a collection of over five hundred letters she wrote to literary friends, authors, publishers, colleagues, and others, between 1918 and 1959, the year before her death.

Personal letters help chronicle the relationship between Ronald and Nancy Reagan from their first meeting in 1950 through the 1990s.