1909-

Biography of retired Arizona senator Barry Goldwater looks at his early life, his 1964 presidential campaign, and discusses how he influenced the Republican party with his conservative views.

A biography of the African American novelist renowned for his series of detective stories.

The autobiography of the fiction writer whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction.

A collection of critical essays on Eudora Welty and her work. Includes a chronology of events.

Chronicles the 1964 campaign for President of the United States, discussing the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and describing the race for power between Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater.

Depicts the lives of Sicilian immigrants in Rochester, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century as their customs blend and clash with those of their adopted country.

Presents the collected short stories of twentieth-century American writer Eudora Welty, and includes a selection of nine literary and personal essays, as well as a memoir of the author's childhood.

A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.

An account of World War II in Germany as told from the viewpoints of a former Nazi soldier and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.

An autobiography by the woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during World War II.