One of the world's legendary couples, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre had an intense intellectual relationship and a controversial romantic one that continues to intrigue philosophers and non-philosophers alike.

The bestselling presidential biographer presents both an elegant survey of Beethoven scholarship and a moving account of the composer's life, informed by the author's 40-year study of the man and his music.

The author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography leads readers through Leaves of Grass and related works.

The author of The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank tells the gripping story of the life in publication of the powerful and vivid diary.

Most New Yorkers are unaware of the history of Dutch Manhattan that lies beneath their feet and in previously unknown archives, but Russell Shorto's The Island at the Center of the World brings this important and long-ignored world to lif

In 1940, Dorothy Kunhardt created a little book for her daughter, Edith. The book, Pat the Bunny, started a new trend in children's writing and has since become one of most popular children's books of all time.

Although Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman probably never met, each loomed large in the other's mental landscape, and each lived a life emblematic of his era in American history.

The story of Captain Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the most famous mutiny in maritime history has been told in books, plays, and movies, but, says Publishers Weekly, Caroline Alexander's The Bounty is destined to become the defi

The Teacher's Funeral tells the witty story of fifteen-year-old Russell Culver, who hopes his school days are over when his turn-of-the-century Indiana farm town is suddenly left without a teacher.

Fleming's upcoming memoir, The Inner Voice, reveals her rise from a childhood as the daughter of two music teachers to international stardom and shares what she has learned as an inspiration to other present and future artists.

In the 1920s, David-Néel became the first European to know the monks, hermits, and shamans of Tibet and the first foreign woman to enter its capital.

Also the author of Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens, Richard Panek specializes in rendering the pursuit of scientific knowledge as exciting, accessible narratives.