1929-

Provides a guide to understanding how writing, reading, listening, and living contributes to the writer's art and explores why all works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction begin and end with the writer's voice.

Describes the Gemini 4 mission in 1965 when astronauts Edward White and James McDivitt carried out the first extravehicular activity in the United States manned space program.

The oral history of the seventeenth child of black sharecroppers, describing her life in Virginia and New Jersey during the Depression.

A biography of twentieth-century architect Frank Gehry, discussing his childhood in Canada, his early exposure to the arts, the family's move to California, and the development and evolution of his architectural style. Includes photographs of selected buildings, and a time line.

Explores the works and techniques of the architect, Frank O. Gehry.

Halina Birenbaum recounts the experiences she had while coming of age as a young Jewish girl in the Warsaw ghetto and concentration camps during the Holocaust.