“College Admissions officers just want to know that you weren’t sitting around all summer with Cheez Doodle crumbs all over your shirt.” This is just one of the hundreds of quotes from college staff, students and their parents that... Read More

Within the scope of cross-cultural literature and women’s studies, insights into the lives and contributions of African women have been, at best limited and more often overlooked. This work, the second of a four-volume series,... Read More

The legendary animosity between England’s Henry II and his wife and queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, has been featured in fiction, nonfiction, and in the film The Lion in Winter. Elizabeth Chadwick reflects that tumultuous relationship... Read More

The author’s interest in Katharine Hepburn began with an argument between his parents. His father wanted to see The Grapes of Wrath and his mother demanded to see The Philadelphia Story, starring Hepburn; his mother won out. Porter was... Read More

Every few months, it seems, a publisher announces the rediscovery of a “lost masterpiece.” While Herbert Lottman, a correspondent for Publisher’s Weekly and a friend and longtime champion of the author, never uses that term in his... Read More

Whispered in the language of the dead, tales of 106 famous and infamous women of ancient times breathe new life in this inaugural edition of the Harvard I Tatti Renaissance Library’s "Famous Women". Joining Bruni’s History of the... Read More