It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Famous recluse J.D. Salinger has hidden from the world since "The Catcher in the Rye" took the world by storm.
From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua.
The author of the acclaimed best sellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most creative genius.
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....
A moving story of a remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musiciandestined to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr.
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge....
The National Endowment for the Arts prodcast that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation’s great artists to explore how art works.
Lust for Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh....
Lorde weaves a narrative tapestry out of the threads of her own life - from her family's immigration to New York through her own coming of age - and the lives of the women who shaped her....