Single, overweight, and frustrated with dating, a 30 year old decides to kill herself.

Young stardom in Little Women; early Hollywood, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis; Peter Lawford, on-screen husband, Jimmy Stewart, and Agnes...

A glamorous childhood in Hollywood; influential friends; addiction and rehabilitation,– by the daughter of Dore Schary, the only writer ever...

The author examines his long relationships with wrestling, coaching, and how they influenced his writing.

An orphan girl raised by a cruel aunt becomes a governess, and falls in love with her employer.

After Woodrow Wilson’s 1919 stroke, the First Lady took over the running of the country.

Psychotic episodes, uncontrollable symptoms, and casually callous care. Life in a state mental institution for Sylvia Frumkin, a schizophrenic. Winner...

A woman with 17 different personalities is re-integrated by her psychiatrist; Sally Field and Joanne Woodward starred in the 1976...

A complex biography about the poet and her confidante/editor.

Four essays written by the doctor/author while he was dying.

Immigrant struggle; alienation, loneliness and frustration; stories that caused a sensation in the 1920s.

A former writer for the "Village Voice," the author–in a series of essays––makes the argument for re-visiting and celebrating-- The...