1938-

Contains essays in which author Joyce Carol Oates discusses various aspects of the art and craft of writing and shares her personal experiences as a novelist, poet, and essayist.

Explores the life and career of twentieth-century American artist Joan Brown through essays, interviews, personal photographs, and reproductions of her paintings, sculptures, and drawings.

A biography of twentieth-century American writer Joyce Carol Oates, drawing from personal letters and journals, as well as interviews with Oates, her family, friends, and colleagues to discuss the paradoxical relationship between her private life and public career, and examining the biographical issues that influence her writing.

The true story of Lore Baer who as a four-year-old Jewish child was placed with a Christian family in the Dutch farm country to avoid persecution by the Nazis.

A professional memoir of Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev as remembered by a fellow dancer and friend, discussing his impact as an artist and a dancer.

Follows the life of Janet Reno from her childhood through her years at Harvard Law School, to the present.

Translation of: Shirahata no shojo. The story of Tomiko Higa's survival of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II.

A biography of the coach and runner who turned innovative designs in running shoes into the Nike Company.

The author presents a personal portrait of Barcelona and its two-thousand-year history and weaves politics, food, architecture, sports, myth, and music into a depiction of the Catalan seaport.