Mallon, Thomas

Analyzes the subject of plagiarism and how it affected the reputations of artists and authors beginning in the seventeenth century including those such as Samuel Coleridge, Victorian novelist Charles Reade, as well as cases involving publishing, academia, Hollywood, and the Internet.

Civil War widow Cynthia May wins a job as a human computer at Washington's Naval Observatory where she becomes involved with handsome antic astronomer Hugh Allison, a man who is pursuing his ambition to project an image through time and space.

Chronicles the life of Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas who offered shelter and assistance to Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife for nine months in 1963.

Chronicles the life of Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas who offered shelter and assistance to Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife for nine months in 1963.