From near poverty in San Antonio, to Lucille Ball-like success in television, movies, and the stage.

Unaware of his sterility, Joe Saul’s wife commits adultery so her husband can have his long-desired child.

Booth Tarkington’s, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS;  the 1919 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel shows the decline of a wealthy family–in part from the introduction of...

A coterie of lonely-hearts are stuck together in a squalid Mexican hotel.

The actress’s career and lifelong rivalry with her Oscar-winning sister, Olivia de Havilland.

The intricately intersecting lives of an illegitimate son and his feminist mother.

Trouble starts when a married engineer re-discovers a former lover. Published in 1912, this was the author’s debut novel.

The vagaries of parenting six children. Later the book morphed into a Doris Day-David Niven movie, and a television show.

Dick and Sally were having a dull day, until the cat arrived.

A boy and two elderly women observe life–from a tree.

Robin Stone’s rise in the media world turns ruthless.

The journalist’s 1952 biography of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, resurrector of the Hebrew language.