" As Lisa Chaney explores Barrie's own struggles to grow up, she deepens our understanding both of his most famous character and of the complex relationship between life and art.

How could a glorious age of American history also give rise to the darkest of literary traditions, one that would inspire Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and many other best-selling American writers?"

Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have ...

... Charles T. Burns, A. Robert Kaufman, Troy Brailey, Kenny Webster, Joe Nawrozki, Stuart Wechsler, Clarence Logan ... Alexander Bordelon. The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins and Not in My Neighborhood are the culmination of my “American ...

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Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929.