homes and haunts

Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

"When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at the life and career of celebrated twentieth-century photojournalist Robert Capa, with a focus on his Paris studio which he used as a global platform for his photography.

The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti's wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.

Color illustrations and simple text teach young readers about artist Mary Nohl.

Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi. He endured a difficult childhood in the Jim Crow South.