A “conventional” wife and mother catapults into a successful garden columnist; winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize.

Depression, near-suicide, and success; Sinatra, Berlin, Monroe; The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie, and a late-in-life writing career...

Acclimating to widowhood and dating; lunches and coffees; and inexpungable loneliness; by the author of Up the Sandbox.

Isadora Wing’s sexual adventures continue; the sequel to Fear of Flying.

In 1952, congress accused the playwright of having ties to the Communist party. Forced to testify, she refused to incriminate...

A group of girls who formed friendships at Radcliffe in the 1950s, reunite.

A popular high school student slides into drug abuse and occult worship.

The wealthy Rex Fortescue suddenly falls dead at a tea, and Miss Marple investigates.

Ishmael the sailor narrates the story of Ahab, the captain of the Pequod, who is obsessed with avenging the mythic...

Maneuvering, machinations, and manipulation in the time of Ferdinand, Isabella, and their Inquisition.

Three sisters-in-law bound by marriage, politics, friendship, and tragedy.

While the Executive Mansion is a flutter with preparations for a classified conference to be attended by General Eisenhower and...