journalists

A biography of William F. Buckley Jr., journalist and controversial conservative, discussing his editorial magazine National Review started in 1955, his campaign for mayor of New York City, and his impact on conservatism from the 1960s to modern politics.

Journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at a bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, and his writing style and life are radically changed in ways that carry Quinn through the next ten years as he witnesses violence, revolutions, and the darkest facets of human nature.

The author describes her life after her childhood diagnosis of polio caused her to spend the next sixty-one years of her life in an iron lung.

Lisbeth Salander, recovering in a Swedish hospital from a gunshot wound, calls upon journalist Mikael Blomkvist to help prove her innocence in the murders of three people; but in order to do so, he must uncover a long-buried conspiracy within the Swedish Secret Service.

Mikael Blomkvist is publishing the story of his career, exposing the extensive sex trafficking operation between Sweden and Eastern Europe, but when two investigative journalists are killed the night before the story runs and Lisbeth Salander is implicated, Mikael vows to clear the girl's name and find the true killer.

Hacker Lisbeth Salander assists Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, with the investigation of Harriet Vanger's disappearance decades earlier, and the two uncover a dark world of secrets about a wealthy Swedish family as well as a surprising connection between themselves.

David Rohde and his wife Kristen Mulvihill describe their experiences during the seven months David, a "New York Times" reporter, was held captive by the Taliban in Pakistan along with two Afghan colleagues, while Kristen tried to work through Western channels to secure his release.

Chronicles the life of Joseph Pulitzer, describing the childhood, education, and professional accomplishments that allowed Pulitzer to become a powerful figure in the media industry during the nineteenth century.

A biography of journalist Bernard Kilgore, discussing his contributions to the success of "The Wall Street Journal," as well as his influence on modern journalism, and including selections from his newspaper writings and correspondence between him and his father.

Presents a short biography of nineteenth-century American writer and humorist, Mark Twain, and chronicles his personal and professional life and works which included "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.".