biographers

"A novel about one classic film actress's relentless rise to the top--the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine"--Provided by publisher.

In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. Isaacson also describes the joys of the "so-called writing life" and the challenges he sees for journalism in the digital age.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

Alroy Kear, commissioned to write a biography of literary lion Edward Driffield, faces a dilemma when h uncovers evidence of Driffield's somewhat less-then- respectable first wife, Rosie.

Famous radio talk-show host Nora Bridge calls upon her estranged daughter Ruby for help after being involved in a serious car accident, and is thrilled when Ruby agrees, not realizing her youngest daughter has taken on the job simply to gather material for a tell-all book that will destroy Nora's career.

Nicholas Greer has immersed himself for years in researching and writing a biography of controversial British painter Frank Spira, but his task becomes even more complicated when he meets with one of Spira's ex-lovers and receives news that Spira's definitive work--believed to have been destroyed--may still exist and someone is willing to kill to possess it.

Presents the fictional journals of eighty-five-year-old Logan Mountstuart in which he tells of his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.