Biography and Memoir
New York Voices
Renowned jazz critic Whitney Balliett (1926–2007) loved New York. A longtime columnist and critic for the New Yorker, he wrote about the city's artistic side and night life for fifty years. In many ...
American Singers
When Whitney Balliett's American Musicians appeared in the Fall of 1986, the acclaim it received was universal. Leonard Feather, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said “no other writer now living can ...
American Musicians II
This is Whitney Balliett's long-awaited “big book.” In it are all the jazz profiles he wrote for the New Yorker during the past twenty-four years. These include his famous early portraits of Pee Wee ...
Civil Rights Childhood
Two voices blend in this poignant memoir from the Civil Rights era in Mississippi—a father's and a daughter's. He was Andrew L. Jordan, a son in a dirt-poor family of sharecroppers near Greenwood. Jordana ...
Katherine Anne Porter
From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922, the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts of her background and often gave ...
Faulkner
William Faulkner (1897-1962) remains the pre-eminent literary chronicler of the American South and a giant of American arts and letters. Creatively obsessed with problems of race, identity, power, politics, ...
Living Life inside the Lines
Martha Sigall worked with all the classic cartoon characters—Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tom & Jerry, Droopy Dawg, Beany & Cecil, Tweety, and Porky Pig—and the madcap artists who created them—Chuck ...
The Writing Life
Celebrated author Ellen Gilchrist played many roles—writer and speaker, wife and lover, mother and grandmother. But she had never tackled the role of teacher.
Offered the opportunity to teach creative ...
The Magic Behind the Voices
The Magic Behind the Voices is a fascinating package of biographies, anecdotes, credit listings, and photographs of the actors who have created the unmistakable voices for some of the most popular and ...
Carville
Mysterious and misunderstood, distorted by Biblical imagery of disfigurement and uncleanness, Hansen's disease or leprosy has all but disappeared from America's consciousness. In Carville, Louisiana, ...